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STATE v. CARROLL

No. 88-KA-539.

537 So.2d 837 (1989)

STATE of Louisiana v. Donnell CARROLL.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

January 18, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Mamoulides, Denis Ganucheau, Dorothy A. Pendergast, Louise Korns, District Attorney's Office, Gretna, for plaintiff-appellee.

Philip E. O'Neill, Gretna, for defendant-appellant.

Before CHEHARDY, KLIEBERT and GAUDIN, JJ.

GAUDIN, Judge.

The only assignment of error in this criminal appeal is that Donnell Carroll was given an excessive sentence in violation of LSA-Const. art. 1, Sec. 20. He was sentenced to four years at hard labor after entering a plea of guilty to simple burglary, LSA-R.S. 14:62, which carries a maximum sentence of 12 years with or without hard labor.

Carroll contends that he should have received probation or that he should have been imprisoned in Jefferson...

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