Legal Opinion

State v. Wisham

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 21, 1979No. 63640PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

371 So.2d 1151 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana

v.

Sherman WISHAM.

No. 63640.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 21, 1979.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie Brown, Dist. Atty., Warren Hebert, Mary V. Gilliland, Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Joseph B. Olinde, Jr., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

DENNIS, Justice.

The defendant, Sherman Wisham, was convicted by a jury of attempted armed robbery, La.R.S. 14:27, 64, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment at hard labor.

By assignments of error numbers 2 and 5, the defendant asserts…

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2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Remmer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  2. Turner v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  3. State v. MarchandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1978
  4. State v. KiferSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1937
  5. State v. AbneySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. State v. GrahamSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1982
  2. State v. ScottSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2006
  3. State v. CopelandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1982
  4. State v. BakerLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1991
  5. State v. HawkinsLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1986

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