State v. Etienne

1PETERS, J.

The defendant, Marvin Etienne, was charged by bill of information with attempted simple escape, a violation of La. R.S. 14:110 and La.R.S. 14:27. A jury convicted him of the charge, and the trial court sentenced him to serve two and one-half years at hard labor and ordered that the sentence run consecutively with any other sentence he might be serving. The defendant appealed his conviction. On appeal, the defendant’s counsel raises one assignment of error. However, the defendant filed a pro se brief raising four assignments of error, one being the same as the one raised by his…