STATE v. ROMERO

No. 63433.

369 So.2d 1342 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee. v. Luke Lionel ROMERO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Mahfouz, James R. McClelland, Morgan City, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Knowles M. Tucker, Dist. Atty., Edward M. Leonard, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter, La.R.S. 14:31, and sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment at hard labor.

Upon his appeal, he relies upon 13 assignments of error.

Admissibility of Confessions and Statements

The most serious assignments concern the denial of the motion to suppress inculpatory statements on the ground that they were involuntary due to the defendant's mental deficiencies (Assignments 1, 2, and...

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