STATE v. LEE

No. 57716.

340 So.2d 180 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana v. Cordell LEE.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 14, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol B. Hart, Milton E. Brener, Garon, Brener & McNeely, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

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


DIXON, Justice.

On June 12, 1974 at approximately 12:30 a.m. the victim, Marguerite Santenac, got off the bus on Paris Avenue and proceeded toward her home in the Parkchester Apartments. At this time the defendant, Cordell Lee, approached her, put a knife to her throat, brought her to an abandoned unit in the Parkchester housing complex and forced her, at knife-point, to submit to the crime of aggravated rape. The victim notified the police who brought her to the...

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