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STATE v. TRASS

No. 59423.

347 So.2d 1156 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana v. Richard TRASS and Charles Tollivar.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 1, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Zibilich, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, Lyall G. Shiell, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

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

SANDERS, Chief Justice.

A grand jury jointly indicted the defendants, Richard Trass and Charles Tollivar, with the second degree murder of Allen Johnson, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:30.1. After a joint trial, a unanimous jury found both guilty as charged. Each defendant received a sentence of life imprisonment without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence for twenty years.

The defendants appeal. They rely on three assignments of error for...

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