STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 81-KA-0033.

404 So.2d 239 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Harden JOHNSON and James Kelly.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Lindsay Larson, John Craft, Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Lawrence J. Boasso and William Noland, New Orleans, for Kelly.

Roy V. Ladner, New Orleans, for Johnson.


WATSON, Justice.*

Defendants, Warden Johnson and James Kelly, were charged by bills of information with two counts of possession with intent to distribute controlled dangerous substances, to-wit: Preludin and Dilaudid. A jury found James Kelly guilty as charged and Harden Johnson guilty of possession.

Kelly was adjudicated a third offender and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor on Count I and ten concurrent years at hard labor...

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