Legal Opinion

State v. Franklin

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided May 28, 2014No. 13-KA-723Published

1Opinion of the Court

MARC E. JOHNSON, Judge.

| ^Defendant, Willie Franklin, appeals his convictions and sentences for armed robbery and possession of a stolen thing on the basis of insufficient evidence regarding his identity as the perpetrator of the crime, failure of the trial court to give a special jury instruction regarding lost evidence, and the excessiveness of his consecutive sentences. For the reasons that follow, we affirm his convictions and sentences for armed robbery and vacate his conviction and sentence for illegal possession of a stolen thing.

Defendant was charged in a bill of information with two…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. State v. OliveauxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1975
  4. State v. WeilandLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1990
  5. State v. LobatoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1992

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