STATE v. GOUTRO

No. 82-KA-2117.

444 So.2d 615 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Larry GOUTRO, 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., Morgan J. Goudeau, III, Dist. Atty., Robert Brinkman, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

Charles R. Browning, Livonia, for defendant-appellant.


LEMMON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of aggravated rape and a sentence to life imprisonment at hard labor. The sole assignment of error is that the trial court erred in admitting the testimony of a witness who had been subjected to hypnosis for the purpose of enhancing her recollection of the events surrounding the crime. Since the state proved that the hypnosis did not affect the witness' testimony, in that the witness after undergoing hypnosis did...

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