STATE v. HAWKINS

No. 86-KA-317.

504 So.2d 1132 (1987)

STATE of Louisiana v. John O. HAWKINS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

March 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Mamoulides, Steve Wimberly, Dorothy A. Pendergast, Office of Dist. Atty., Gretna, for plaintiff-appellee.

Martha E. Sassone, Indigent Defender Bd., Gretna, for defendant-appellant.

Before BOWES, GAUDIN and DUFRESNE, JJ.


GAUDIN, Judge.

John O. Hawkins was convicted of the forcible rape of a 13-year-old boy in Jefferson Parish and sentenced to 15 years at hard labor.

His primary assignment of district court error is that the evidence presented to a 12-person jury was insufficient to convict him of forcible rape. The trial judge allegedly erred in not rendering a post-conviction judgment of acquittal and/or in not modifying the verdict by rendering a judgment of conviction to...

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