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STATE v. GIBSON

No. 88-KA-141.

529 So.2d 1347 (1988)

STATE of Louisiana v. Edna GIBSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

July 26, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce G. Whittaker, Staff Appellate Counsel, Indigent Defender Bd., Gretna, for defendant/appellant.

Dorothy A. Pendergast, Asst. Dist. Atty., Research & Appeals, Gretna, for the State.

Before BOWES, DUFRESNE and GOTHARD, JJ.

BOWES, Judge.

The defendant, Edna Gibson, was charged with violation of LSA-R.S. 14:30.1 —Second Degree Murder in the stabbing death of her husband, Louis Gibson. A jury trial was held, at which the defendant was convicted as charged by a margin of ten jurors to two jurors. The defendant received the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Defendant appeals her conviction. We affirm...

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