State v. Sloan

DOUCET, Judge.

The above numbered and entitled appeal was consolidated with an appeal entitled State v. Williams, 542 So.2d 787 (La.App. 3rd Cir.1988). Both appeals arise out of convictions and sentences for the same criminal offense. We decide all issues presented in both appeals in this opinion, but render a separate decree in the companion appeal.

Defendants were each originally charged with attempted first degree murder and attempted armed robbery. In plea bargain agreements the state agreed to dismiss the attempted first degree murder charges in *789exchange for the defendants’ pleas of guilty…