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STATE v. WOODS

No. 88-KA-2410.

555 So.2d 657 (1989)

STATE of Louisiana v. Frank J. WOODS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 28, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Val M. Solino, Asst. Dist. Atty., Orleans Parish, New Orleans, for plaintiff.

Sherry Watters, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant.

Before CIACCIO, WILLIAMS and BECKER, JJ.

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Defendant, Frank J. Woods, was charged by bill of information with purse snatching, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:65.1. After a jury trial, defendant was found guilty as charged. He was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor.1 Defendant appeals, assigning as error the trial court's instruction to the jury that "(y)ou may infer that a person in the unexplained possession of property recently stolen is the thief." We affirm...

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