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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