State v. Hall

SANDERS, Justice.

The State charged the defendant, Kester Lee I-Iall, with armed robbery. After trial, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. The trial judge sentenced him, as a multiple offender, to one hundred and ninety-eight years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. After sentence, the district attorney discovered that one of the petit jurors had a prior felony conviction. He furnished this information to defense counsel. Defense counsel then added the disqualification of the juror as a ground in a pending motion for a new trial. After an evidentiary hearing, the trial judge overruled the…