STATE v. WASHINGTON

No. KA-7184.

522 So.2d 628 (1988)

STATE of Louisiana v. Elton WASHINGTON and Thaddeus Bentley.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1988.

Writ Denied April 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., William B. Faust, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Joseph H. McCusker, III, R. Jeffrey Bridger, Asst. Dist. Attys., New Orleans, for appellee.

Calvin Johnson, New Orleans, for Elton Washington, appellant.

Elizabeth W. Cole, Supervising Atty., Kathleen R. Hennessey, Student Atty., New Orleans, for Thaddeus Bentley, appellant.

Before GULOTTA, C.J., and BYRNES and CIACCIO, JJ.


GULOTTA, Chief Judge.

Elton Washington and Thaddeus Bentley appeal from their convictions on two counts of armed robbery, violations of LSA-R.S. 14:64. We affirm.

FACTS

Around midnight on July 9, 1983, Sharon Escarra and Peter Babin were walking in the French Quarter when two men robbed them at gunpoint of jewelry, a purse, and a wallet. The men fled in a car, but were stopped two blocks away for a traffic violation. Both victims identified Washington...

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