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STATE v. SYKES

No. 61403.

364 So.2d 1293 (1978)

STATE of Louisiana v. Carl I. SYKES.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing November 13, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth W. Cole, 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., Brian G. Meissner, Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

MARCUS, Justice.

Carl I. Sykes and John Tasker were jointly indicted by the grand jury for the Parish of Orleans for the crime of distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, to-wit: heroin, in violation of La.R.S. 40:966. Sykes was separately tried by a jury and found guilty as charged. He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor,1 which sentence was to run concurrently

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