STATE v. BARKLEY

No. 81-KA-2176.

412 So.2d 1380 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. Travis Eugene BARKLEY and Joey Lum Barnes.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied July 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Norval J. Rhodes, Dist. Atty., William G. Yates, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

Charles Gary Blaize, and Warren J. Daigle, Jr., Houma, of Indigent Defender Bd., for defendants-appellants.


LEMMON, Justice.*

Defendants Barkley and Barnes have appealed from convictions of forcible rape and simple rape and sentences at hard labor of 40 and 15 years respectively. The principal issue is whether the trial court erred in denying defendants' motion to sever their trials.1

I.

Donna Emmell, the victim, and her boyfriend, Steve Archer, hitchhiked into Houma.

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