STATE v. FRAZIER

No. 53447.

283 So.2d 261 (1973)

STATE of Louisiana v. Joel Wade FRAZIER, alias David James Frazier.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 24, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Monk Zelden, Zelden & Zelden, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., LeRoy A. Hartley, Sp. Counsel to Atty. Gen., John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Thomas P. McGee, First Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


DIXON, Justice.

Defendant, Joel Wade Frazier, was tried under an indictment charging him with murder. He was convicted after a trial by jury and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Defendant appeals, relying on four bills of exceptions to obtain reversal of his conviction.

The facts as established by the record are as follows. During the late morning of May 5, 1971 Paul Prieto was shot and killed in an apartment in Gretna, Louisiana. A number of people, including...

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