GARRISON, Judge.
The defendant, Emmett Messick, was charged by grand jury indictment with second degree murder, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:30.1. After a jury found the defendant guilty as charged, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. Defendant now appeals his conviction and sentence.
On June 1, 1986, nineteen year old Kelvin Thompson was shot and killed while riding a bicycle along...
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