State v. Gatlin

hWILLIAMS, Judge.

The defendant, Robert Gatlin, was charged by bill of information with one count of aggravated battery, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:34. The district court sentenced defendant to serve ten years at hard labor without accrual of good time credit and denied a timely motion for reconsideration of sentence. Defendant appeals his sentence as excessive. We affirm.

DISCUSSION

The record shows that in December 1999, defendant stabbed the unarmed victim, Derric Addison, in the back twice with a knife at the Red Front Café in Monroe. A witness identified defendant as £he assailant. The…