Legal Opinion
State v. Watson
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 7, 2015No. 15-392PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GENOVESE, Judge.
_JjIn this criminal case, Defendant, Man-zy C. Watson,1 appeals his conviction of second degree murder, alleging insufficiency of the evidence, excessive sentence, and trial court error as to his waiver of trial by jury. For the following reasons, we affirm Defendant’s conviction and sentence.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
After a day of arguing with her over finances, in the early morning hours of August 20, 2012, Defendant went to the home of Dorothy Horsman, his girlfriend. Thereafter, the argument resumed, and Defendant stabbed Ms. Horsman twelve times with a kitchen…
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