Legal Opinion
State v. Swaingan
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 6, 1990No. 90-KA-89PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWES, Judge.
Defendant, Leroy Swaingan, appeals his conviction in the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court of first degree robbery under LSA-R.S. 14:64.1. We affirm.
Shortly after midnight on December 11, 1988, two men walked into a Time Saver-store in Paradis, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, and selected a bottle of Thunderbird wine. They then approached the register and as the cashier rang up the sale, one of the men pointed a gun at her and ordered her to hand over the money in the register. The men left the store with the money, the wine, and some cigarettes and food stamps, also stolen in…
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