State v. Brown

hThe defendant, Harold D. Brown, was formally charged by bill of information with domestic abuse battery-strangulation, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:35.3(L), and cruelty to a juvenile, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:93. Following a jury trial, the defendant was found guilty of the responsive verdicts of domestic abuse battery (LSA-R.S. 14:35.3) and attempted cruelty to a juvenile (LSA-R.S. 14:27 and 14:93). After being adjudicated a third-felony offender, defendant was sentenced to serve 10 years at hard labor for the attempted cruelty to a juvenile conviction and six months in the parish jail for…