STATE v. TAYLOR

No. 84-KA-1324.

463 So.2d 1274 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana v. Walter J. TAYLOR.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Concurring Opinion March 6, 1985.


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, Nancy Sharp, Rockne Moseley, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellant-plaintiff.

Samuel S. Dalton, Jefferson, for appellee-defendant.


DENNIS, Justice.

Vehicular homicide is defined as the killing of a human being caused by a person's operation of an automobile when the operator's blood alcohol concentration is 0.10 percent or more1. La.R.S. 14:32.1. The trial court declared the statute unconstitutional, and the state appealed. La. Const. art. V, § 5. This appeal draws into question the trial court's construction of the statutory crime definition as requiring no...

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