STATE v. MITCHELL

No. KA 0779.

442 So.2d 806 (1983)

STATE of Louisiana v. Albert MITCHELL.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight Doskey, Frank Larre, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., William R. Campbell, Jr., John H. Craft, Asst. Dist. Attys., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SCHOTT, BARRY, and LOBRANO, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of armed robbery in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:64 and sentenced to fifty years at hard labor. In this appeal he submits two assignments of error, that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction of armed robbery rather than simple robbery and that the sentence is excessive.

In the early afternoon of February 17, 1982, the victim, a fourteen year old girl, was walking along St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans when...

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