STATE EX REL. DAVIS v. CRIMINAL DIST. COURT

Nos. 63216, 62281.

368 So.2d 1092 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Arthur M. DAVIS v. CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT. STATE of Louisiana v. Arthur M. DAVIS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde Merritt, Robert Barnard, New Orleans, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, for defendant-relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.*

The issue in this case is whether a sixteen year old juvenile indicted by a grand jury for first degree murder, may be charged subsequently by bill of information with second degree murder, tried and convicted by a jury in district court for the latter offense, and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without parole for forty years.

Arthur Davis was jointly indicted with a co-defendant for first degree...

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