State v. Haynes

JOY COSSICH LOBRANO, Judge.

| following a trial, a jury convicted defendant, Frank E. Haynes, of second degree murder1 in the death of Barry Jean-marie. The trial court sentenced Haynes to life imprisonment at hard labor, without the benefit of parole. Haynes appealed his conviction and sentence. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Reginald Walker testified that on the evening of June 15, 2011, he, his son, Gir-ard Broussard, and Jeanmarie, were hanging out in front of Broussard’s grandfather’s house on the corner of Mazant and Villere Streets. After deciding to buy some beer and snacks,…