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STATE v. SIGGERS

No. 18065-KW.

490 So.2d 716 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana Appellee, v. Edna SIGGERS Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones & Smith by Benjamin Jones, Monroe, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, James D. Caldwell, Dist. Atty. Gen., Tallulah, George F. Fox, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Lake Providence, for appellee.

Before MARVIN, FRED W. JONES, Jr. and NORRIS, JJ.

MARVIN, Judge.

We granted a writ to review the correctness of defendant's convictions of resisting an officer and of battery of a police officer. LRS 14:34.2, 108. We find that the State did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant committed a battery on the officers and that defendant's intentional resistance of the officers was in response to the unlawful restraint (arrest) and was not criminal conduct defined by LRS 14:108. Accordingly, we reverse...

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