STATE v. BLACKSTONE

No. 59082.

347 So.2d 193 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana v. Quinton BLACKSTONE.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred C. Jackson, St. Francisville, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leon A. Picou, Jr., Dist. Atty., William E. Woodward, Asst. Dist. Atty., A. Z. Butterworth, Sp. Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


SUMMERS, Justice.

A grand jury indictment dated April 21, 1976 charged that on December 7, 1975 Quinton Blackstone violated Article 110(A)1 of the Criminal Code when he escaped from the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Defendant waived trial by jury, was found guilty as charged in a bench trial, and received a consecutive sentence to serve five years at hard labor.

In the only assignment of error urged on this appeal, defendant asserts that there is insufficient...

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