STATE v. JACKSON

No. 80-KA-1983.

396 So.2d 1291 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Curtis JACKSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

William J. O'Hara, III and Ernie L. Vallery, New Orleans, of Loyola Law School Clinic, for defendant-appellant.


LEMMON, Justice.

The principal issues in this appeal relate to the trial judge's refusal to accept a stipulation offered in lieu of the testimony of a defense witness and to allegedly prejudicial remarks made by a witness for the prosecution.

On September 14, 1978 two persons observed defendant in the act of breaking into the residence of one of their neighbors. The witnesses saw defendant force the door open with a crowbar and enter the dwelling, and they...

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