STATE v. KNIGHT

No. 87-KA-840.

526 So.2d 452 (1988)

STATE of Louisiana v. Philip KNIGHT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

May 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce G. Whittaker, Twenty-Fourth Judicial Dist. Indigent Defender Bd., Gretna, for defendant-appellant.

Dorothy A. Pendergast, Dist. Atty's. Office, Twenty-Fourth Judicial Dist., Gretna, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BOWES, GRISBAUM, and GOTHARD, JJ.


GRISBAUM, Judge.

Philip Knight was indicted for two counts of aggravated rape (La.R.S. 14:42) and two counts of aggravated crime against nature (La.R.S. 14:89.1). The two victims were sisters, aged five and seven years. The charges for the crime against the seven year old were dismissed. The appellant was tried for the aggravated rape and the aggravated crime against nature upon the five year old before a 12-person jury on May 19 and 20, 1987. The jury returned a...

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