PER CURIAM.
Defendant was convicted of simple criminal damage to property, La.R.S. 14:56. Finding no evidence of criminal damage to property, we conclude that the trial judge erred in denying defendant's motion for a judgment of acquittal.
Accordingly, the conviction and sentence are reversed and the defendant discharged.
SUMMERS, J., dissents.
In my view there is "some" evidence to sustain the conviction—the only issue...
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