Legal Opinion
State v. Tolbird
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 11, 1996No. 28,986-KAPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JiBROWN, Judge.
A jury found defendant, James Daniel Tol-bird, guilty of second degree murder. The trial court imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. On appeal, defendant urges insufficiency of the evidence and error in the trial court’s failure to excuse a juror who was allegedly related to the victim. Finding no merit to either assignment of error, we affirm.
Facts
On September 21, 1994, at some time after 3:45 p.m., a group of young people, including Shawn Marie Burgess, Eric Fontana and Antwan McMillan, were at…
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