STATE v. SYLVESTER

No. 66395.

388 So.2d 1155 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. David Joseph SYLVESTER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Timothy W. Cerniglia, Louise S. Korns, J. Kevin McNary, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

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


LEMMON, Justice.

Defendant's appeal urges two grounds for reversal of his conviction for first degree murder and sentence to life imprisonment.

Prior to the murders in this case defendant had been indicted for possession of heroin with intent to distribute, a crime with a mandatory penalty of life imprisonment. Paulette Royal and Eddie Smith, the murder victims in this case, were to be system and intent witnesses for the prosecution in the drug trial, which...

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