STATE v. FALKINS

No. 60628.

356 So.2d 415 (1978)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Floyd FALKINS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Billingsley, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., William L. Brockman, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant Falkins was convicted of armed robbery, La.R.S. 14:64, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for thirty years.

His appeal presents five assignments of error. Of these, Assignments 1 and 2 raise a substantial issue of reversible error. They concern the failure of the state's prosecutrix to reveal, upon request, information of an exculpatory nature—that two of the state's eyewitnesses had, on the day of the robbery,...

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