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STATE v. BOLTON

No. 64937.

379 So.2d 722 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana, Relator, v. Charles F. BOLTON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 12, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde D. Merritt, Asst. Director, New Orleans, Calvin Johnson, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, for respondent.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Richard J. Petre, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Career Criminal Bureau, for relator.

PER CURIAM.*

The issue before us concerns the state's burden of proof as to the voluntariness of an admitted plea of guilty in 1966. This prior conviction is an essential element in proof of the crime charged that the defendant, as a convicted felon, was in possession of a firearm. La.R.S. 14:95.1. The state has the burden of proving the prior conviction of a felony and that the accused's firearm violation occurred within ten years of...

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