STATE v. FORBES

No. 55596.

310 So.2d 569 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana v. Joseph Francis FORBES.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 31, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron Frank McGee, Guillory, McGee & Mayeux, J. Michael Morrow, Devillier, Ardoin & Morrow, Eunice, Richard Millspaugh, Opelousas, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morgan J. Goudeau, III, Dist. Atty., Robert Brinkman, First Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


DIXON, Justice.

Defendant was charged by bill of information with the February 13, 1973 armed robbery of Mrs. Rita DeJean. (R.S. 14:64). Preliminary motions were filed and after hearings on a motion to suppress and the sanity of the defendant, trial on the merits was held on April 27, 1973. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged and the defendant was subsequently sentenced to serve forty years at hard labor without...

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