STATE v. RANKER

No. 58682.

343 So.2d 189 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana v. Roland RANKER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 28, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice Hattier, 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., Lawrence J. Centola, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


DENNIS, Justice.

The defendant, Roland Ranker, was convicted of armed robbery, La.R.S. 14:64, and sentenced, as a multiple offender, to ninetynine years at hard labor. On appeal he assigned numerous errors, and we find merit in defendant's first assignment.

Prior to trial defendant unsuccessfully moved to suppress as evidence a brown tank-top shirt seized by police officers at the time of his arrest. At trial the shirt was introduced, over defendant's objection...

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