STATE v. NELSON

No. 62653.

367 So.2d 317 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Dorothy NELSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. J. Boudreaux, Staff Appeals Counsel, 24th Judicial Dist. Indigent Defender Bd., Kenner, for defendant-relator.

William J. Guste, Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.*

Defendant, Dorothy Nelson, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, La.R.S. 14:95, and false personation, La.R.S. 14:112. After a judge trial, the defendant was convicted of false personation but found not guilty of carrying a concealed weapon. Defendant Nelson was sentenced to pay a fine of $100, or to serve a jail sentence of thirty days in default of payment. The trial judge imposed but suspended, upon defendant...

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