STATE v. GRIFFIN

No. 57098.

329 So.2d 693 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana v. Eddie Charles GRIFFIN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 29, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy R. Higgins, Office of the Public Defender, Amite, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard E. Yokum, Dist. Atty., Joseph H. Simpson, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


SUMMERS, Justice.

In February of 1975 Harmon Chapman was shot in the eye, allegedly during the course of an armed robbery which occurred when Chapman's car was stopped on a highway near Arcola, Louisiana. A fingerprint was lifted from the window of Chapman's car and matched with a known print of Eddie Charles Griffin. Griffin was arrested and identified by Chapman in a lineup at the jail. He was then charged with armed robbery in violation of Article 64 of the Criminal...

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