State v. Hammond

LABORDE, Judge.

Defendant, Patrick John Hammond, was charged with committing the crime of cruelty to a juvenile, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:93. On February 23, 1987, defendant pled guilty as charged. The trial court sentenced defendant to serve five (5) years at hard labor on June 16, 1987. From that sentence, defendant appeals urging three (3) assignments of error. Finding no errors, we affirm.

FACTS

Defendant, by the count of the examining physician, punctured an eight month old baby girl’s skin over two hundred (200) *1259times with a safety pin. For this act he was arrested and pled guilty to…