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STATE v. CHEATHAM

No. KA-7675.

519 So.2d 188 (1987)

STATE of Louisiana v. Willie CHEATHAM.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied April 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., William B. Faust, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Patricia Edwards, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for appellee.

Before CIACCIO, LOBRANO and CADE, JJ.

CIACCIO, Judge.

Defendant, Willie Cheatham was charged with the second degree murder of his father, Oscar Cheatham. He was found mentally competent to stand trial in June, 1986, after having been formerly committed to the Feliciana Forensic Facility in October, 1985. The defendant waived his right to a jury trial. He was convicted of the charged offense and ordered to serve life imprisonment at hard labor, without benefit of parole. The defendant appeals his conviction...

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