STATE v. SAWYER

No. 91-KD-2602.

588 So.2d 704 (1991)

STATE of Louisiana v. Robert Wayne SAWYER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 14, 1991.


Denied.

CALOGERO, C.J., dissenting, would grant the stay for reasons assigned.

LEMMON, J., votes to stay the execution in order to allow time for consideration of whether the arguably erroneous instruction on reasonable doubt was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt in the context of the entire record.

CALOGERO, Chief Justice, dissenting.

I would grant the stay to consider two questions: (1) whether the Supreme Court's decision in Cage v....

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