State v. Watson

SANDERS, Chief Justice.

The State charged Dale Watson and Lonzo Lanier with aggravated battery upon Deputy Dwayne Duhon. LSA-R.S. 14:34.

The facts are as follows:

On September 2, 1973, the defendant Lanier discovered that his stepson, Darrell Watson, was involved in an alcohol and narcotics party at a neighbor’s home in Lake Charles. Defendants Lanier and Watson proceeded to the neighbor’s house in order to get Darrell. After arriving at the neighbor’s home, the defendants became involved in an altercation with an undercover narcotics agent, Dwayne Du-hon. In the fracas, Duhon was beaten with a…