STATE v. PETERSON

No. 54028.

290 So.2d 307 (1974)

STATE of Louisiana v. Sue Ellen PETERSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Knowles M. Tucker, Dist. Atty., Edward M. Leonard, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

Wilson C. Krebs, Patterson, for defendant-appellant.


BARHAM, Justice.

Defendant was convicted, after a jury trial for murder, of manslaughter and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Upon this appeal, defendant urges alleged error in the trial court's denial of two motions in arrest of judgment as the basis for a reversal of her conviction and sentence.

Very few facts of the case are revealed by the record. Apparently, defendant and another were involved in a shooting homicide which occurred in St. Mary...

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