STATE v. ELAIRE

No. 02-0203.

820 So.2d 660 (2002)

STATE of Louisiana v. George ELAIRE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hon. J. Phillip Haney, District Attorney, New Iberia, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee, State of Louisiana.

G. Paul Marx, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellant, George Elaire.

Court composed of SYLVIA R. COOKS, JIMMIE C. PETERS, and GLENN B. GREMILLION, Judges.


GREMILLION, Judge.

In this case, the defendant, George Elaire, Jr., was convicted by a jury of the second degree murder of Christopher Landry. He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Defendant now appeals his conviction alleging as error insufficient evidence, the exclusion of res gestae statements of the victim as inadmissible bad character evidence of the victim, and the failure of the...

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