STATE v. BERRY

No. 56734.

324 So.2d 822 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Stephen BERRY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Gleason, III, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant Berry was convicted of the April, 1973 murder of Jo Ellen Smith, La.R.S. 14:30 (1950), and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor.

On his appeal, he presents fourteen assignments of error. The most substantial issues relate to the defendant's plea of insanity at the time of the offense (Assignment 14), to the admission of evidence in connection therewith in alleged violations of the defendant's physician-patient privilege...

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