STATE v. SIMIEN

No. 47730.

178 So.2d 266 (1965)

248 La. 323

STATE of Louisiana v. Wilson SIMIEN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion Filed July 21, 1965.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry A. Roach, Lake Charles, A. J. Planchard, Sulphur, for appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank T. Salter, Jr., Dist. Atty., Bryan Forrest, Gill, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Wilson Simien, convicted of attempted aggravated rape and sentenced to 15 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary, has appealed.

On February 26, 1964, at about 8:00 or 9:00 p. m., a young man and a young woman, students of McNeese State College, were sitting in a parked automobile on a street in Lake Charles. A Negro man came up to the car on the driver's side, thrust a pistol into the open window, and forced the occupants under a...

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