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STATE v. TUCKER

No. 91-KA-766.

595 So.2d 1183 (1992)

STATE of Louisiana v. Dessie R. TUCKER.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

February 25, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Ronald Gracianette, Lawrence Alterman, Dorothy A. Pendergast, Asst. Dist. Attys., Gretna, for plaintiff-appellee.

Bruce G. Whittaker, Staff Appellate Counsel, Indigent Defender Bd., Gretna, for defendant-appellant.

Before BOWES, GAUDIN and DUFRESNE, JJ.

GAUDIN, Judge.

Dessie Rae Tucker was convicted by a jury in the 24th Judicial District Court of the July 25, 1990 second degree murder of Linda Johnson. Tucker was sentenced to life imprisonment without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.

On appeal, Tucker contends that the trial judge erred (1) in denying her motion for a post-verdict judgment of acquittal and (2) in not reducing the verdict from second degree murder to manslaughter.<...

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