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STATE v. SEWELL

No. 58203.

342 So.2d 156 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana v. Alfred SEWELL, III.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard V. Burnes, Gravel, Roy & Burnes, Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Nathan Stansbury, Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

SUMMERS, Justice.

A true bill was returned by the grand jury of Lafayette Parish on September 8, 1975, charging that on August 25, 1975 Alfred Sewell III "committed aggravated kidnapping of one Dwight W. Andrus, Sr., in violation of the provisions of R.S. 14:44." In a twelve man jury trial on January 20-22, 1976 Sewell was found guilty as charged by an eleven-to-one verdict and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life.

According to the record, Sewell...

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