State v. Bowden

GENOVESE, Judge.

_JjOn September 6, 2011, Defendant entered an Alford plea to the charges of aggravated burglary and aggravated assault on a police officer. Subsequently, on November 3, 2011, the sentencing court imposed a sentence of fifteen years at hard labor without designating to which offense the penalty applied.

On June 12, 2012, Defendant filed a motion for appeal, and the trial court granted the out-of-time appeal on the same date. Thereafter, on July 22, 2012, Defendant died of natural causes at the Bogalusa Medical Center. The appeal record was lodged with this court on November 26,…