SCHOTT, Judge.
Defendant has appealed from his conviction of attempted purse snatching in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:27(65.1). Following the jury verdict a multiple offender hearing was conducted and defendant was sentenced as a third felony offender to 12 years imprisonment at hard labor.
On April 25, 1982, while in a crowd leaving an event at the Superdome, the victim was shoved and observed the defendant's hand in her purse causing her to exclaim, "he's taking...
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