STATE v. O'CONNOR

No. 63809.

372 So.2d 1208 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Robert O'CONNOR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 25, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Barnard, Chief Appeals Section, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Marvin Opotowsky, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant appeals his conviction of manslaughter, La.R.S. 14:31, which resulted in his sentence of fifteen years imprisonment at hard labor.

His two assignments of error present no reversible error:

Assignment One: After conviction and before sentence, the defendant's counsel moved for the appointment of a lunacy commission. For reasons elaborated in an appendix to this opinion (which will not be published, but which will...

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