State v. Lewis

SUMMERS, Justice.

Defendant was tried on a bill of information charging him with distribution of a controlled dangerous substance on January 8,1973. R.S. 40:966(A). After a trial by jury, defendant was convicted and sentenced to serve twenty-seven years at hard labor.

*205He appeals his conviction and sentence relying on two bills of exceptions.

Bill 1

This bill was reserved when the Court overruled the defense counsel’s objection to the prosecution’s introduction into evidence of testimony of previous offenses of the accused on the ground that the State had .not complied with the procedural…