STATE v. VEALS

No. 81-KA-0874.

407 So.2d 675 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Bertel VEALS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie B. Brown, Dist. Atty., Glen Peterson, Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Bonnie P. Jackson, Georgia Wileman, & M. Michele Fournet of Indigent Defender Bd., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.


GARRISON, Justice Ad Hoc*.

On July 6, 1979, appellant Bertel Veals was charged by Bill of Information with violating R.S. 14:285, with regard to making improper telephone communications. On April 15, 1980, a six-member jury found appellant guilty as charged. The trial court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment in Parish Prison, the maximum term of incarceration allowable under the statute.

On October 15, 1980, appellant appealed...

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