STATE v. MASON

No. 90-KA-0262.

591 So.2d 1321 (1991)

STATE of Louisiana v. Leroy MASON and Joseph Hughes.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Pamela S. Moran, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Eddie J. Jordan, Jr., Sessions & Fishman, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant/Joseph Hughes.

M. Craig Colwart, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant/Leroy Mason.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and LOBRANO and PLOTKIN, JJ.


SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

Defendants, Mason and Hughes, were each convicted of two counts of armed robbery in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:64. Hughes was sentenced under the Habitual Offender Law, R.S. 15:529.1, to fifty years at hard labor on each count to run concurrently and Mason was sentenced to thirty-five years on each count to run concurrently.

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