STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 66544.

388 So.2d 741 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. Michael JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Jeffrey M. Bassett, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

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


DIXON, Chief Justice.

In the early morning hours of January 10, 1978, a young man approached a cab driver at a filling station and asked him for change of a five dollar bill. As the driver reached into his taxi in search of coins, his interlocutor fired several shots at him, wounding him fatally, and fled with his money. A search of the premises occupied by Michael Johnson and his family uncovered the gun from which the fatal shots were fired, and a photograph of...

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