State v. Green

SUMMERS, Justice.

This prosecution is governed by the Constitution of 1974 and is based upon a charge in a bill of information filed on April 16, 1975. The bill of information charged the defendant with knowingly and intentionally distributing heroin, a crime condemned and punished by life imprisonment by Section 966(A) of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes. He was tried by a jury and found guilty of the lesser included offense of possession of heroin and sentenced to be confined for ten years at hard labor. Appellant contends it was error to prosecute on a bill of information.

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