STATE v. COLEMAN

No. KA-4955.

499 So.2d 408 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana v. Kevin COLEMAN.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 14, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Pamela S. Moran, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

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

Before BARRY, CIACCIO and ARMSTRONG, JJ.


ARMSTRONG, Judge.

The defendant, Kevin Coleman was charged with and convicted of a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:62.2, relative to simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling. He was sentenced as a multiple offender to 24 years at hard labor, the first year of the sentence to be served without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. We reverse.

The record reflects that on September 8, 1983 the residence of Alta Simonds and her son David was broken...

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