State v. Butler

h Joseph Butler was convicted in a bench trial of manslaughter and subsequently adjudicated a second felony offender. He was sentenced to 28 years at hard labor. Butler.appeals his conviction and sentence. We affirm the conviction and amend the sentence to reinstate the imposition of sentence without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence.

Facts

In the late afternoon hours of December 21, 2012, Shreveport police were dispatched to the Shreveport home of Carolyn Butler. When police entered the home, they found the lifeless body of Butler’s boyfriend, Larry Patterson,' in the bedroom of…