STATE v. SIMPSON

No. KA-2775.

475 So.2d 1115 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana v. Anthony L. SIMPSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

September 9, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Maria M. Lazarte, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

M. Craig Colwart, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant.

Before BARRY and WARD, JJ., and PRESTON H. HUFFT, J. Pro Tem.


BARRY, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of theft of $1000, R.S. 14:67, and sentenced as a multiple offender to ten years at hard labor.

The victim, Dr. Ford Turner, a visiting guest lecturer at L.S.U., testified that the defendant approached him on Bourbon St. A second person stepped up and Turner realized that the two were picking his pocket. After seeing his wallet in the defendant's hand, Turner grabbed him by the wrist. When police arrived, Turner was...

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