STATE v. FERNANDEZ

No. KA-4205.

489 So.2d 345 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana v. John J. FERNANDEZ.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Pamela S. Moran, A. Hammond Scott, Asst. Dist. Attys., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Dwight Doskey, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before GARRISON and ARMSTRONG, JJ. and HUFFT, J., Pro Tem.


ARMSTRONG, Judge.

Defendant, John Fernandez, was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of LSA-R.S. 40:967 and sentenced to ten years at hard labor.

The record reflects that on September 30, 1983, at approximately 1:20 a.m., Officer Emmett Dupas responded to a radio broadcast that there was a suspicious person in the 4800 block of Tchoupitoulas Street. The dispatcher stated that the subject was John Fernandez, alias "Sonny...

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