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STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 63669.

371 So.2d 1155 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Jimmy C. JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy A. Ford, Jr., Ford & Avants, West Monroe, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Carl Parkerson, Dist. Atty., Kenneth A. Rains, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

DIXON, Justice.

Lynn Wiggins and Gene Allen were working in the Oak Ridge Bank in Oak Ridge, Louisiana at noon on June 5, 1978 when a young black man entered the building and at gunpoint ordered Mrs. Wiggins to give him all the money in her teller drawer. Mrs. Wiggins complied with the robber's request but also slipped a stack of marked bills and two disguised tear gas canisters into the brown paper sack supplied by the...

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