STATE v. JONES

No. 65628.

381 So.2d 416 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. Irving JONES.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Jay C. Zainey, McPherson, Weber, Zainey & Booth, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.


DIXON, Justice.*

On August 13, 1977 an employee of a Seven-Eleven food store in New Orleans was robbed at gunpoint of the contents of the store's cash register. Six days later the robbery victim selected a photograph of Irving Jones from a group of seven photographs presented to him by the police, and identified it as that of his assailant. Twenty months later Jones, whose name was actually Willis Wilson but who had assumed the Jones alias...

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