State v. Gaines

WATKINS, Judge.

Reggie Gaines was charged by bill of information with armed robbery. LSA-R.S. 14:64. He pled not guilty, and, after a jury -trial, he was found guilty and sentenced- to fifteen years at hard labor, without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. He has appealed, alleging one assignment of error:

1. The the trial court committed error when it imposed an excessive sentence.

At approximately 3:00 on the morning of March 5, 1983, deputy sheriff Johnson of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Department was summoned to the scene of an armed robbery at Gulf Majik Market.

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