STATE v. THOMAS

No. 82-KA-1897.

447 So.2d 1053 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Reginald THOMAS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., William R. Campbell, Jr., Jim Williams, Lee Melton, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Vernon Thomas, Dwight Doskey, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.


WATSON, Justice.

Defendant, Reginald Thomas, was convicted by a jury of two counts of simple robbery. After being adjudicated a fourth offender under LSA-R.S. 15:529.1, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor. On appeal, defendant makes two arguments for reversal of his convictions and sentence.

FACTS

On the night of April 4, 1981, Richard Barber, age eighteen, and his girlfriend, Laurie Dawson, age sixteen, were driving on Pontchartrain...

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