STATE v. ABBOTT

No. KA 2749.

477 So.2d 1266 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana v. Alvin C. ABBOTT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

Before WILLIAMS, ARMSTRONG, JJ., and PRESTON H. HUFFT, J. Pro Tem.


WILLIAMS, Judge.

Defendant Alvin C. Abbott appeals his conviction of three counts of violating La. R.S. 14:64 (armed robbery) and his sentence of thirty-three years at hard labor for each count (to run concurrently).

Defendant was convicted of robbing three men with whom he had been playing a dice game earlier in the evening. All three men identified a photograph of defendant as the man who robbed them of money and jewelry at gunpoint.

Defendant has...

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