STATE v. FORD

No. 58165.

338 So.2d 107 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana v. Drex Anthony FORD.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 6, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Bienvenu, Voorhies & Labbe, Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Nathan Stansbury, Dist. Atty., Byron P. Legendre, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


CALOGERO, Justice.

Defendant Drex Anthony Ford was charged, tried, and convicted and appropriately sentenced for committing second degree murder of William Cummings, Jr. From his conviction and sentence, defendant appeals, relying on two assignments of error. Because we find merit in the first of these assignments, we pretermit consideration of the other.

The facts from which this error arose occurred in the following manner. Defendant's trial was held on...

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