STATE v. MITCHELL

No. 81-KA-0371.

412 So.2d 547 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. Matthew MITCHELL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., L. K. Knapp, Dist. Atty., Charles Richard, Evelyn Oubre, Eugene Bouquet, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Nick Pizzolatto, Jr., of Caskey & Pizzolatto, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellant.


WATSON, Justice.

Defendant, Matthew Edward Mitchell, together with Casey John Wilson, Martin Christopher Carter and Richard Mark Coleman, was charged with the second degree murder of Curtis Ray Fisher. LSA-R.S. 14:30.1.1 A jury acquitted Carter and Wilson, but convicted Mitchell and Coleman by a 10 to 2 vote. Mitchell was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence and has...

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