State v. Voelkel

WHIPPLE, Judge.

The defendant, Van B. Voelkel, was charged by grand jury indictment with distribution of marijuana, a violation of LSA-R.S. 40:966 A. He pled not guilty and, after trial by jury, was found guilty as charged. He received a sentence of twelve years at hard labor. On appeal, defendant urges in his sole assignment of error that the trial court erred in failing to have the jurors sworn together as a group.

FACTS

During the summer of 1989, Allen Pohl-mann of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriffs Department was working as an undercover narcotics agent in conjunction with the Washington Parish…