State v. Egena

DIXON, Justice.

Defendants, Gerald Egena and Billy Ray Jacob, were charged jointly by bill of information with the September 23, 1972 armed robbery of Henrietta Thormah-len, in violation of R.S. 14:64. The defendants were jointly tried on March 15, 1973 and, after a short deliberation, the jury returned the following verdict: “Guilty as Charge (sic) of Arm (sic) Robbery.” Each defendant was sentenced to forty years at hard labor. Defendants base this appeal upon two assignments of error but discussion of these alleged errors is pretermitted because of an error patent on the face of the record.…