STATE v. COOK

No. 57305.

332 So.2d 760 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Edward COOK, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied June 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tilden H. Greenbaum, III, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise S. Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of illegal possession of heroin, La.R.S. 40:966(C), and sentenced as a multiple offender, La. R.S. 15:529.1, to twenty years at hard labor. Upon appeal, the single assignment of error relates to the denial of the motion to suppress the heroin seized at the time of the defendant's arrest and its admission into evidence.

The issue so-raised primarily relates to whether the law enforcement officers had the right to make...

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