CALOGERO, Justice.
Defendant was charged by bill of information with the crime of manslaughter (R.S. 14:31) for the killing of one James Otis Baker. After a trial by jury defendant was found guilty as charged and sentenced to five years at hard labor in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
The incident which led to defendant's conviction occurred on November 26, 1976 in Arcadia, Louisiana. On that afternoon defendant and a friend drove to a local...
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