STATE v. WILLIAMS

No. KA 6528.

514 So.2d 573 (1987)

STATE of Louisiana v. Melvin WILLIAMS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., William B. Faust, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., William A. Marshall, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Dwight Doskey, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before SCHOTT and LOBRANO, JJ., and HERBERT A. CADE, J. Pro Tem.


SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of attempted forcible rape, R.S. 14:27 and 14:42.1, and aggravated crime against nature (R.S. 14:89.1). Pursuant to R.S. 15:529.1 he was sentenced as a repeat offender to forty and thirty years for the respective offenses both without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence and with the sentences to run consecutively.

The victim testified as follows: She had spent the evening of March 14, 1986 visiting...

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