STATE v. SIMMS

No. 58287.

341 So.2d 874 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana v. Dwight Edgar SIMMS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 24, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Ford, Jr., 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., Geraldine S. Veazey, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


SUMMERS, Justice.

A bill of information charged that defendant Dwight Simms robbed Lawrence Stone of $75 on February 22, 1975. La.Rev. Stat. 14:65. Simms was found guilty in a bench trial and sentenced as a habitual offender to serve twenty years at hard labor. La.Rev.Stat. 15:529.1.

The victim of the robbery, Lawrence Stone, testified that about 6:30 p.m. on February 22, 1975 he was accosted by the defendant while he was buying a carnation from the Vogue...

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