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STATE v. ROSS

No. KA 87 0329.

515 So.2d 524 (1987)

STATE of Louisiana, v. Melvin ROSS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

October 14, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan Bush, Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, by Mike Erwin, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff/appellee.

Office of the Public Defender, Baton Rouge, by Tim Screen, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant/appellant.

Before COVINGTON, SAVOIE and LeBLANC, JJ.

LeBLANC, Judge.

Defendant, Melvin Ross, was indicted for the second degree murder of Sims Prestly, in violation of La.R.S. 14:30.1. Thereafter, he elected to enter a plea of guilty to the lesser offense of manslaughter, in violation of La.R.S. 14:31; and the State agreed that it would not file a habitual offender petition. The trial court imposed the maximum sentence of twenty-one years at hard labor. Defendant appealed, alleging as his only assignment of error that...

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