STATE v. HAWKINS

No. 90-KA-0702.

593 So.2d 820 (1992)

STATE of Louisiana v. Jeffery HAWKINS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 16, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Charmagne Padua, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee State of Louisiana.

Sherry Watters, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant Jeffery Hawkins.

Before KLEES and WARD, JJ., and GULOTTA, J. Pro Tem.


KLEES, Judge.

Defendant Jeffery Hawkins was indicted by a grand jury for the first degree murder of Joseph Lee, the indictment was later amended to charge defendant with second degree murder (R.S. 14:30.1). Defendant pleaded not guilty. On October 4, 1989, he was tried by twelve-person jury which found him guilty as charged. Subsequently, defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

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