STATE v. ROLLINS

No. 59542.

351 So.2d 470 (1977)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Harold ROLLINS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied November 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. Tate, Jr., Tate, Tate & Tate, Mamon, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. William Pucheu, Dist. Atty., A. Bruce Rozas, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant Rollins was convicted of murder, La.R.S. 14:30 (1950), and sentenced to life imprisonment. His defense was not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the offense. Upon his appeal, he relies upon five assignments of error.

The most arguable assignments concern: (1) the denial of a continuance because of the defendant's inability to secure the presence of one of his two chief psychiatric witnesses (Assignment No. 2); and (2...

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