STATE EX REL. RICHEY v. BUTLER

No. 89-KH-1509.

572 So.2d 1043 (1991)

STATE ex rel. Joseph B. RICHEY v. Warden Hilton BUTLER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 10, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Richey, pro se.

Professor Russell Jones, Southern University Law Center, for Joseph Richey, relator-plaintiff.

Cheney Joseph, Dist. Atty., Susan S. Kreston, Asst. Dist. Atty., for Warden Hilton Butler, defendant-respondent.


PER CURIAM.

We granted certiorari to consider whether, for purposes of proof of an essential element of the crime of armed robbery under La.Rev.Stat. 14:64, a piece of wood, crudely fashioned into a fake bomb by a wrap of electrician's tape and the embellishment of a woman's wristwatch, constituted a dangerous weapon as an instrumentality which in the manner used was "calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm". La.Rev.Stat. 14:2(3).

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