STATE v. COFFIL

No. 64874.

377 So.2d 106 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Willie Mae COFFIL, Toni Mae Coffil and Joycelyn Coffil.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Castaing, Jr., Dymond, Crull & Castaing, Patrick C. McGinity, McGinity & McGinity, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

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


SUMMERS, Chief Justice.*

The Orleans Parish Grand Jury jointly indicted Toni M. Coffil, Willie M. Coffil, and Joycelyn Coffil for the December 14, 1975 second degree murder of Joseph Harold, a violation of Article 30.1 of the Criminal Code. They waived trial by jury and were first tried on May 5, 1977; that trial ended in a mistrial declared by the trial judge over objection by the defense. The...

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