STATE v. BANKS

No. 55224.

307 So.2d 594 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana v. David BANKS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel B. Dickinson, Joel B. Dickinson & Associates, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

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


DIXON, Justice.

David Banks and Willie J. Banks were charged in a bill of information filed on April 30, 1973 with distribution of heroin (R.S. 40:966, subd. A(1)) to Charles Spillers on October 18, 1972; the time of the sale was fixed in a bill of particulars at about 6:45 p. m. The case of Willie J. Banks was severed, and David Banks was found guilty by a jury on January 7, 1974, and subsequently sentenced to twenty-one years at hard labor.

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