Legal Opinion
State v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 30, 1970No. 50014PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMLIN, Justice.
By bill of indictment filed September 15, 1967, Lee Perry Pratt was jointly charged with Claude Alexander with the crime of aggravated rape upon a young woman on September 4, 1967 — the record reveals that the victim was sixteen years of age at the time the alleged crime was committed. LSA-R.S. 14:42. A severance was granted on November 10, 1967, after the hearing of preliminary motions. 1 Defendant was tried by jury, found guilty without capital punishment, and sentenced to a term at hard labor in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for the remainder of his natural life. He…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Hernandez v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Hoyt v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- State v. AndrusSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1967
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3Cited by38 opinions
- State v. LacosteSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1970
- State v. RicheySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1971
- State v. NewmanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1973
- State v. VinceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1974
- Davis v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1985
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