STATE v. COPLING

No. 45614.

135 So.2d 271 (1961)

242 La. 199

STATE of Louisiana v. J. W. COPLING, Jr., and Herbert Tannehill.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 11, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Rester, Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Bogalusa, for defendant-appellants.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Woodrow W. Erwin, Dist. Atty., Franklinton, for appellee.


SUMMERS, Justice.

This is an appeal from the conviction and sentence of the defendants, Herbert "Mott" Tannehill and J. W. Copling, Jr., on February 9, 1961, for enticing minors into prostitution as defined and prohibited by Article 86 of the Louisiana Criminal Code, LSA-R.S. 14:86. The defendants were sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in the penitentiary. The Article provides:

"Enticing minors into prostitution is committed when anyone over the...

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