State v. Barnes

CRAIN, Judge.

Defendant, Lionel Barnes, was charged by bill of information with forgery, in violation of La.R.S. 14:72. Defendant withdrew his original plea of not guilty, pled guilty as charged, and was subsequently sentenced to serve ten years in the custody of the Department of Corrections. In bringing this appeal, defendant urges as his only assignments of error that the trial court failed to follow the guidelines of La.C.Cr.P. art. 894.1 and that the sentence imposed is excessive.

La. Const, art. I, § 20 provides that “[n]o law shall subject any person to ... cruel, excessive, or unusual…