STATE v. HAWKINS

No. KA 4183.

488 So.2d 1183 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana v. Samuel HAWKINS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara B. Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Michael E. McMahon, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for the State.

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

Before SCHOTT and BYRNES, JJ., and PRESTON H. HUFFT, J. Pro Tem.


SCHOTT, Judge.

After being charged with armed robbery in violation of LSA R.S. 14:64, defendant and co-defendant, Michael Augustine, were convicted of attempted armed robbery. Defendant was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. In his only assignment of error he contends the sentence is excessive.

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