STATE v. REDWINE

No. 55719.

311 So.2d 855 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Eugene REDWINE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 24, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Randolph Harger, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie Brown, District Atty., Richard E. Chaffin, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant Redwine was convicted of possessing opium with intent to distribute it, La.R.S. 40:967A, and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor. Upon his appeal, he principally questions the admission into evidence at the present trial of his own testimony given under oath at a prior trial of two of his friends for the possession of the same opium.

The prior trial resulted in the convictions of the two friends, a husband and wife, which we...

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