STATE v. PIERCE

No. 83-KA-769.

450 So.2d 730 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Edward J. PIERCE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

May 14, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Montgomery, Staff Appeals Counsel, Indigent Defender Bd., Gretna, for Edward J. Pierce, defendant-appellant.

William C. Credo, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., Research & Appeals, Gretna, for State of La., plaintiff-appellee.

Before BOUTALL, KLIEBERT and DUFRESNE, JJ.


BOUTALL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of violation of La.R.S. 14:62, simple burglary of a motor vehicle.

Appellant assigns as error the trial judge's failure to grant defendant's motion for a new trial based upon a lack of evidence of specific intent to commit a felony while engaged in the alleged breaking and entering of the vehicle. We affirm the conviction.

The facts are:

On March 1, 1982 at about 1:10 a.m. Deputy Robert Brown...

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