STATE v. COLEMAN

No. 60962.

358 So.2d 289 (1978)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Wallace Eugene COLEMAN, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wade A. Mouton, Kaplan, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Nathan Stansbury, Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant Coleman was convicted of theft, La.R.S. 14:67, and sentenced, as a multiple offender, to twenty years at hard labor, La.R.S. 15:529.1. Upon his appeal, the defendant argues 12 assignments of error.

The most arguable issue raised by the defendant's appeal concerns, under the particular facts of this case, the trial court's charge that a presumption of theft arises from the unexplained possession of recently stolen property, La.R...

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