State v. McDermott

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Ralph McDermott was found guilty of purse snatching in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:65.1. He was subsequently adjudicated a second felony offender as a result of a previous purse snatching and was sentenced to serve fifteen years in the Department of Corrections, with credit for time served. Defendant appeals, claiming insufficiency of the evidence and exeessiveness of sentence.

On February 28, 1987 Dan Spiker was walking with friends on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter after the Mar-di Gras Endymion Parade. Spiker and his friends were pushed towards the sidewalk by an unruly…