STATE v. MATTHEWS

No. 56460.

322 So.2d 159 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana v. Wilbert MATTHEWS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied December 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Ponder, Ponder & Richardson, Roger W. Jordan, Metairie, 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 plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, J., dissents for the reasons assigned by Dixon, J., concurring.

DIXON, J., dissents and assigns reasons.

CALOGERO, J., dissents for the reasons assigned by Dixon, J., dissenting.

BOLIN, Justice.

Wilbert Matthews was charged by bill of information with armed robbery of a grocery store proprietor and was convicted after a jury trial. A sentence of fifty years' imprisonment at hard labor was imposed by the trial court. Defendant seeks reversal...

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