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STATE v. ANDERSON

No. 15633-KA.

440 So.2d 870 (1983)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Ernest Ray ANDERSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

October 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy R. Fischer, Shreveport, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, Paul J. Carmouche, Dist. Atty., Shreveport, Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, Sonia D. Peters, Catherine Estopinal, Asst. Dist. Attys., Shreveport, for appellee.

Before PRICE, HALL and SEXTON, JJ.

SEXTON, Judge.

Defendant appeals his sentence of ten years at hard labor for the commission of Sexual Battery in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:43.1, contending it constitutes excessive punishment in violation of Art. 1, § 20 of the 1974 Louisiana Constitution. The sentence imposed is the maximum punishment authorized by the Sexual Battery statute. We affirm the sentence imposed.

On October 6, 1981, at approximately 2:30 a.m., defendant and an unidentified...

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