STATE v. JACKSON

No. 67405.

389 So.2d 69 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. William JACKSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Thomas Chester, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-relator.

Thomas Mull, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.


WATSON, Justice.

Defendant, William Jackson, was convicted by a jury of attempted crime against nature on May 26, 1976. At a multiple offender hearing, represented by counsel, Jackson admitted to being the same William Jackson who was convicted of felonies in 1969, 1972, and 1973. As a fourth offender, Jackson was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor.

Defendant filed a motion for correction of an illegal sentence, alleging that the court which accepted...

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