STATE v. KNOWLES

No. 82-KA-1893.

444 So.2d 611 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Paul KNOWLES, Jr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 16, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Dorothy A. Pendergast, Stephen Little, William C. Credo, III, Asst. Dist. Attys., Kenner, for plaintiff-appellee.

Edward C. Keeton, Gretna, Robert T. Garrity, Jr., Harahan, for defendant-appellant.


DENNIS, Justice.

Defendant, Paul Knowles, Jr., was convicted by a jury of second degree murder, La.R.S. 14:30.1, and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Defendant appealed and urges the failure to suppress his confession as his only assignment of error.

During the investigation of the homicide of defendant's friend, Frank Emery, to which the defendant had been linked by fingerprint evidence...

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