STATE v. RANSOME

No. 15565-KA.

441 So.2d 425 (1983)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Jerome RANSOME, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

November 29, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond L. Cannon, Tallulah, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, James D. Caldwell, Dist. Atty., Felicia Toney Williams, Asst. Dist. Atty., Tallulah, for appellee.

Before PRICE, HALL and NORRIS, JJ.


HALL, Judge.

After trial by jury the defendant, Jerome Ransome, was found guilty of the crime of negligent homicide, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:32. The defendant's motion for a post-verdict judgment of acquittal or alternatively for a new trial was denied. He was sentenced to serve five years imprisonment at hard labor, the maximum sentence for negligent homicide.

Defendant's appeal presents two assignments of error: (1) The trial court erred in denying the...

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