State v. Egana

GARRISON, Judge.

On October 12, 1972, the defendant, Gerald Egana, was charged by bill of information with the September 23, 1972 armed robbery of Henrietta Thormahlen in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:64. The bill of information also named Billy Ray Jacobs as a defendant in the case. In 1973, al jury found both defendants guilty as charged. They were both sentenced to forty years at hard labor but the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed their convictions because of an error patent and remanded the case for a new trial. State v. Egena1, 347 So.2d 1106 (La.1977).

In 1978, the defendant and Jacobs were…