STATE v. EVERETT

No. KA-6079.

505 So.2d 133 (1987)

STATE of Louisiana v. Dwight EVERETT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Michael E. McMahon, Asst. Dist. Atty., and Chris Toensing, Law Clerk, New Orleans, for appellee.

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

Before SCHOTT, KLEES and LOBRANO, JJ.


LOBRANO, Judge.

Defendant appeals the trial judge's refusal to accept defendant's special requested charge providing that "not guilty of manslaughter by reason of insanity" is a responsive verdict to a charge of second degree murder.

On January 21, 1985 defendant pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to the December 16, 1984 second degree murder of his brother, Eric.

Following a judge trial on March 11, 1986, defendant requested that...

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