STATE v. MURRAY

No. CR 88-1132.

546 So.2d 944 (1989)

STATE of Louisiana, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donald MURRAY, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Vogt, Indigent Defender, Vidalia, for defendant-appellant.

John Johnson, Dist. Atty., Vidalia, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before STOKER, YELVERTON and KNOLL, JJ.


YELVERTON, Judge.

Defendant, Donald Murray, was convicted of second-degree murder, in violation of La.R.S. 14:30.1, and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor.

On the morning of July 5, 1986, Mrs. Pinkney Ashford, 81, was found lying dead on her kitchen floor. She had been stabbed numerous times in the chest and side with a butcher knife. The police began their investigation by interviewing neighbors, one of whom was the defendant. Defendant and his...

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