STATE v. DORSEY

No. KW 84 0183.

447 So.2d 636 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Henry DORSEY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

March 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Houston C. Gascon, III, Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-respondent.

C. Jerome D'Aquila, New Roads, for defendant-relator.

Before SHORTESS, LANIER and CRAIN, JJ.


LANIER, Judge.

This is an application for a supervisory writ from a judgment denying an application for post conviction relief which sought to vacate a guilty plea because the defendant did not have the mental capacity to enter it.

FACTS

On September 20, 1982, Henry Dorsey, Jr. was indicted by the Iberville Parish Grand Jury for the second degree murders (La.R.S. 14:30.1) of Troy Dorsey and Nathaniel Dorsey, his children, on August 10, 1982. He was...

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