STATE v. ALEXANDER

No. 59990.

353 So.2d 716 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. John ALEXANDER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth W. Cole, 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., Robert L. Simmons, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant Alexander was convicted of simple burglary, La.R.S. 14:62, and sentenced, as a second offender, La.R.S. 15:529.1, to serve nine years imprisonment at hard labor.

The defendant's appeal urges a total absence of evidence that he committed the burglary charged. The evidence at most proves, he contends, a criminal trespass into the fenced yard of the victim or an attempted (but unsuccessful) burglary.

La.R.S. 14:62 defines...

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