BLANCHE, Justice.
Westley Ray was convicted by a six-person jury of one count of forgery, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:72. Ray was then sentenced by the trial court to serve ten years at hard labor, the maximum sentence. In appealing his conviction and sentence, the defendant urges two of the four errors he assigned below.
On August 15, 1980, the defendant and another man entered the B & W Drive-in Grocery in Shreveport, Louisiana. Defendant presented to...
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