STATE v. LAVIGNE

No. 81-KA-1085.

412 So.2d 993 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. George LAVIGNE and Lawrence Gordon.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, David L'Hoste, John Craft, William R. Campbell, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Numa Bertel and Dwight Doskey, Orleans Indigent Defender Bd., New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.


CALOGERO, Justice.

In this appeal from criminal convictions we must decide whether the trial judge committed reversible error when he denied defendants' motions requesting severance for trial of jointly charged defendants. For reasons which follow we determine that he did not err.

By bill of information, the Orleans Parish District Attorney charged defendants George Lavigne and Lawrence Gordon, along with one Ronald J. Veal, with the July 21, 1980, attempted...

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