Legal Opinion
State v. Gaskin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided April 5, 1982No. 81-KA-1629PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
412 So.2d 1007 (1982)
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Allen Keith GASKIN.
No. 81-KA-1629.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
April 5, 1982.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry N. Brown, Jr., Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.
D. G. Tyler, and Tommy J. Johnson, Shreveport, for defendant-appellant.
MARCUS, Justice.
Allen Gaskin, James Earl Thomley, Jr. and Stephen Scott were charged by the grand jury in the same indictment with the first degree murder of Virginia Smith in violation of La.R.S. 14:30. The trial judge granted Scott's motion for severance and the prosecution…
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