TATE, Justice.
The defendant, age 16, pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated rape, La. R.S. 14:27, 42, and was sentenced to fifty years at hard labor. The sole assignment of error strongly urged is that the sentence constituted excessive punishment in violation of Article 1, Section 20, La. Constitution of 1974.
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The circumstances of the plea are as follows:
The defendant, then a fifteen year old boy, was picked...
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