STATE v. COOK

No. 16736-KA.

465 So.2d 825 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Billy Ray COOK, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied April 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Indigent Defender's Office by Richard C. Goorley and Richard E. Hiller, Shreveport, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, Paul J. Carmouche, Dist. Atty., Scott J. Crichton, Gay C. McNeely, and Tommy J. Johnson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Shreveport, for appellee.

Before HALL and SEXTON, JJ., and PRICE, J. Pro Tem.


HALL, Judge.

The defendant, Billy Ray Cook, was charged along with a co-defendant, Gregory Greene, with simple burglary, LSA-R.S. 14:62. Greene pled guilty to the charge prior to trial. After trial, defendant was found guilty by the jury of attempted simple burglary. The defendant was sentenced to serve five and one half years at hard labor. The defendant appealed assigning as error the insufficiency of the evidence and the excessiveness of the sentence. Finding no...

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