State v. Black

BYRNES, Judge.

Defendant, Donald Black, was charged with simple burglary, a violation of R.S. 14:62, and was convicted of attempted simple burglary. He was subsequently adjudged a third offender and sentenced to serve 8 years at hard labor without diminution of sentence for “good time”. By this appeal, Black asserts that the trial court erred in ordering him to serve his sentence without the benefit of “good time”. We disagree and affirm.

In the early morning of August 27, 1984, two New Orleans Police Officers responded to a silent alarm at the Western Sizzlin Steak House located on General…