STATE v. TURNER

No. 57674.

337 So.2d 455 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana v. Leonard TURNER and Bobby Glover.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tilden H. Greenbaum, III, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, James W. Mills, III, Asst. Dist. Attys., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendants Turner and Glover were convicted of armed robbery, La.R.S. 14:64, and sentenced as multiple offenders, La.R.S. 15:529.1, respectively to ninety-nine years and to seventy-five years at hard labor. Upon their appeal, their most substantial contention (and one in which we find reversible merit) is presented by Assignments of Error Nos. 5, 6, and 7:

The state introduced highly prejudicial testimony in improper rebuttal. Moreover...

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