STATE v. FORET

No. 65382.

380 So.2d 62 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. Lionel FORET and Judith McWhorter.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miriam W. Waltzer, New Orleans, A. J. Boudreaux, New Orleans, Indigent Defender Bd., 24th Judicial Dist. Court, for defendants-appellants.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Abbott Reeves, G. Michael Grosz, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Defendants Lionel Foret and Judith McWhorter were indicted together for distribution of heroin in violation of LSA-R.S. 40:966(A)(1), Acts 1973, No. 207, § 3. After joint trial before a jury, beginning on January 26, 1977, defendant Foret was found guilty as charged, and defendant McWhorter guilty of possession of heroin. LSA-R.S. 40:966(C). The trial court sentenced Foret to life imprisonment at hard labor, and McWhorter to seven years' imprisonment...

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