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STATE v. LUSK

No. 63422.

371 So.2d 1125 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Charles Edward LUSK.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Frank Holthaus, Boren, Holthaus & Perez, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie B. Brown, Dist. Atty., Richard Chaffin, Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

DENNIS, Justice.

Defendant, Charles Lusk, was convicted by a judge of possession of heroin with intent to distribute, La.R.S. 40:966, and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor. He appealed and urges three assignments of error.

Acting on a tip from a confidential informer that defendant, Charles Lusk, had in his possession a blue balloon containing heroin, law enforcement officers located defendant at a dice game in a Scotlandville bar and arrested him...

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