STATE v. BURKHALTER

No. 56099.

319 So.2d 392 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Eddie BURKHALTER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Connell, Jackson, Stanley E. Branton, St. Francisville, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leon A. Picou, Jr., Dist. Atty., Cynthia P. Branton, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant, an inmate at the state penitentiary, is convicted of murdering McAllister, another inmate, on November 11, 1972. La.R.S. 14:30 (1950). He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

On his appeal, he urgues four principal errors. Although close issues are presented by two of them, we find no clearly erroneous abuse of the trial court's discretion and no other reversible error. We therefore affirm.

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