STATE v. WELLS

No. KA 7610.

522 So.2d 1163 (1988)

STATE of Louisiana v. Edgar WELLS & Sherman Francois.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied May 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Beryl McSmith, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff/appellee.

Sherry Watters, Orleans Indigent Defender Pro., New Orleans, for defendants/appellants.

Before SCHOTT, WARD and ARMSTRONG, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendants Francois and Wells were convicted of armed robbery (LSA-R.S. 14:64) and were both initially sentenced to fifty years at hard labor. They were subsequently resentenced under the Habitual Offender Law (R.S. 15:529.1) to fifty years at hard labor.

On May 10, 1985 at about 4:00 a.m. Nanette Pichietti, Thomas Sexton, and Martha Ann Woods were walking toward a French Market coffee house in the New Orleans French Quarter when an automobile...

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