SANDERS, Chief Justice.
A grand jury indicted Jimmy Trosclair with armed robbery, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:64. A jury found defendant guilty as charged. The court sentenced him to twenty years at hard labor. In appealing his conviction and sentence, defendant relies upon five assignments of error.
The context facts are that:
On November 19, 1974, Trosclair, armed with a shotgun, robbed Emmett Copeland of $18, in the presence of Copeland's girl friend...
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