STATE v. WARD

No. 51023.

249 So.2d 921 (1971)

259 La. 317

STATE of Louisiana v. Edward WARD.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., Harry H. Howard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ronald C. Martin, Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellant.

Gravel, Roy & Burnes, Richard V. Burnes, Alexandria, for defendant-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

This appeal is from the trial court's denial of a motion to re-sentence the defendant to life imprisonment.

The defendant had previously been sentenced to death. See 246 La. 766, 167 So.2d 359 (1964). Such sentence was set aside on collateral review, for reasons not here pertinent.

By a plea of mootness, our attention is called to the circumstance that, following the...

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