STATE v. DARBY

No. 17089-KA.

476 So.2d 400 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Ricky O. DARBY, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Armstrong, Monroe, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, James A. Norris, Jr., Dist. Atty., Earl Cox, Asst. Dist. Atty., Monroe, for appellee.

Before HALL, MARVIN and SEXTON, JJ.


MARVIN, Judge.

After being indicted for second degree murder and pleading guilty to manslaughter, defendant appeals his sentence to the maximum 21 years at hard labor, contending that the sentence is excessive and that the trial judge did not properly articulate the mitigating circumstances of CCrP Art. 894.1. We affirm.

After ending a drinking spree at an all night tavern, defendant and his friends returned to an apartment building where they had begun, and...

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