STATE v. WELCOME

No. 82-KA-2232.

458 So.2d 1235 (1983)

STATE of Louisiana v. Herbert WELCOME.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing June 14, 1984.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Bernard E. Boudreaux, Jr., Dist. Atty., Dracos D. Burke, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

Walter J. Landry, Poteet & Landry, Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.


DENNIS, Justice.

On August 21, 1981, defendant Herbert Welcome shot and killed his aunt, Dorothy Guillory, and her paramour, Wallace Maturin, outside the house in which defendant resided with his mother.

According to the testimony of eyewitnesses, as the victims, Guillory and Maturin, were visiting on the front porch of the house, Welcome quarrelled with Maturin about the ownership of a pocketknife. The argument developed into a scuffle between Welcome and...

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