STATE v. JONES

No. 81-KA-0578.

407 So.2d 1199 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Eugene JONES.

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., Louise S. Korns, Judith Lombardino, Madeleine Slaughter, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Calvin Johnson, and Matthew B. Collins, Jr., of Collins, Johnson & Volk, Dwight Doskey, of Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.


BARRY, Justice Ad Hoc.*

Eugene Jones was found guilty of armed robbery, LSA-R.S. 14:64, and sentenced to sixty years at hard labor. On appeal he presents one assignment of error urging that a defense witness was improperly impeached by use of inadmissible evidence.

The victim of the robbery, Raymond Robin, testified that while selling hot tamales from the corner of Orleans and Galvez Streets in New Orleans a man wearing a straw...

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