State v. Tidwell

AMY, Judge.

I,The defendant was convicted of obstruction of justice. The trial court denied the defendant’s motion for post-verdict judgment of acquittal and motion for new trial. Thereafter, the State instituted habitual offender proceedings. The defendant was adjudicated a third felony offender, and the trial court imposed sentence of thirty years at hard labor without the benefit of probation or suspension of sentence. The defendant appeals his conviction. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

The State alleged that after the murder of Christina Mayeaux,1 the…