STATE v. LEWIS

No. 81-KA-3337.

421 So.2d 224 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. Jerry LEWIS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie B. Brown, Dist. Atty., Kay Kirkpatrick, Glen Petersen, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Joel B. Dickinson, Joel B. Dickinson & Associates, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.


WARD, Justice Pro Tem.*

On April 8, 1980, the East Baton Rouge Parish Grand Jury indicted the defendant, Jerry Lewis, and charged him with manslaughter, LSA-R.S. 14:31. More than one year after the indictment, on June 8, 1981, he entered a plea of guilty as charged. The plea was entered after an extensive colloquy between the Trial Judge and Lewis. That colloquy, also known as the Boykin examination...

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