STATE v. RIDEAU

No. 52492.

278 So.2d 100 (1973)

STATE of Louisiana v. Wilbert RIDEAU.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Leithead, Lake Charles, James A. Wood, Norco, James A. George, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Ossie Brown, Frank T. Salter, Jr., Dist. Attys., J. B. Jones, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


DIXON, Justice.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of murder, R.S. 14:30, and his sentence to death.

This prosecution is one that has been in the courts for many years. The original indictment arose out of the robbery of the Southgate Branch of the Gulf National Bank in Lake Charles on February 16, 1961. In the robbery, Julia Ferguson was killed.

Defendant was originally tried by a jury in the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu...

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