DIXON, Justice.
Defendant, Louis Hopkins, was charged by grand jury indictment with distribution of heroin on January 30, 1976, in violation of R.S. 40:966. After trial by jury, beginning May 17, 1976, he was found guilty as charged. On June 2, 1976, the trial court imposed a sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor, the mandatory term under the statute. R.S. 40:966(B)(1).
Defendant appealed this conviction and sentence to...
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