STATE v. STERLING

No. 80-KA-2270.

407 So.2d 1190 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Barry STERLING.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Donald Foret, Louise S. Korns, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Dwight Doskey, of Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.


PATRICK M. SCHOTT, Justice Ad Hoc.1

Defendant was charged by grand jury indictment with first degree murder of Roosevelt Slack in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:30. He was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

An eye witness testified that he heard a disturbance down the hall of a housing project where he lived and saw the victim pleading for mercy as one subject...

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