State v. McDowell

CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

Herbert J. McDowell, defendant, was charged by true bill with second degree murder, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:30.1. He entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment and subsequently was tried by a jury, which found him guilty of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter. He was sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment at hard labor. The defendant has appealed.

McDowell’s only assignment of error is any error patent on the face of the record, although he has not pointed out any such errors in his appellate brief. In reviewing the record we have found two patent errors,…