STATE v. NICHOLAS

No. 61045.

359 So.2d 965 (1978)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Haywood NICHOLAS, Ulyses Smith, and Joseph Jones, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Blanchard, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for appellants.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise S. Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendants were convicted of receiving stolen goods valued at $600 and sentenced to terms at hard labor: Nicholas, five years; and Smith and Jones, as multiple offenders, to enhanced terms of twenty years, La.R.S. 15:529.1.

The defendants appeal and argue various assignments of error. We find, however, that only Smith's Assignment 4 and the Nicholas-Smith-Jones Assignment 1 raise issues requiring discussion.

Smith Assignment 4...

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