State v. Dorsey

Defendant was charged by bill of information with ten counts of felony theft in violation of La.R.S. 14:67. The charges arose out of a flurry of bad-check writing in New Orleans in November and December of 1977, and early January of 1978. The state dismissed one of the counts prior to trial and then brought defendant before a jury on July 20, 1978. He was found guilty as charged on all nine counts. On January 7, 1981, after a delay occasioned by defendant’s inadvertent release from the parish prison in New Orleans and his subsequent conviction in Georgia on another bad-check charge, the trial…