State v. Scott

liHIGHTOWER, Judge.

After Robbin Jean Scott pled guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter, La.R.S. 14:31, the district court imposed twenty-one years of hard labor incarceration. Defendant now appeals that sentence as excessive. We affirm.

Facts

On the night of May 21, 1994, Scott and three friends stood in the yard of a house on East 73rd Street in Shreveport, when Timothy Pace and an unidentified man drove up asking to purchase marijuana. A member of the group, Dexter Black, soon ordered Pace out of the ear at gunpoint. Although the man begged not to be hurt, Black hit him in the head and…