STATE v. HAMLIN

Nos. 86-KA-1261, 86-KA-1262.

497 So.2d 1369 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana v. Carolyn HAMLIN. STATE of Louisiana v. Anthony D. REDDIX.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Judith Brewster, Joseph Iuzzolino, Rockne Moseley, New Orleans, for applicant.

Dwight Doskey, John Craft, Sherry Watters, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for appellee.


MARCUS, Justice.*

In separate cases, Carolyn Hamlin and Anthony D. Reddix were each charged by a bill of information with possession of an unregistered shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length in violation of La.R.S. 40:1785. Both defendants filed motions to quash alleging that the statute was unconstitutionally overbroad in that it impermissibly infringed upon their right to keep and bear arms and violated their...

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