STATE v. BELL

No. 64448.

377 So.2d 275 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Donald E. BELL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wilson Reed, Robert Glass, Glass & Reed, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

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


SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

Donald E. Bell was charged on February 6, 1978 with the armed robbery of Salome Helmstetter, a violation of Article 64 of the Criminal Code.

Much of the evidence adduced at the trial was uncontradicted. The defense rested solely on testimony from character witnesses and defendant's claim that he was too intoxicated to remember any of the events the evening of the robbery.

Testimony from the State's case-in-chief established...

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