State v. Morgan

| ¡.The defendant, Josie Y. Morgan, was charged by grand jury indictment with second degree murder, a violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty. (R. 1). Following a trial by jury, the defendant was found guilty as charged. (R. 13,1063). The trial court denied the defendant’s motion for postverdict judgment of acquittal and motion for new trial. The defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.1 The defendant now appeals, assigning error to the sufficiency of the evidence…