State v. Nelson

DENNIS, Justice.*

Defendant, Dorothy Nelson, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, La.R.S. 14:95, and false personation, La.R.S. 14:112. After a judge trial, the defendant was convicted of false personation but found not guilty of carrying a concealed weapon. Defendant Nelson was sentenced to pay a fine of $100, or to serve a jail sentence of thirty days in default of payment. The trial judge imposed but suspended, upon defendant’s good behavior, execution of an additional jail sentence of ninety days.

Two Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies observed the defendant outside a drug store…