State v. Ray

BARRY, Judge.

The defendant was charged and convicted of second degree murder (La.R.S.14:30.-1) and sentenced to life in prison without *1125benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. We affirm.

PACTS1

The defendant claims his stepdaughter, Clarisse Smith, told him that someone was shooting a gun on their porch. He went downstairs and saw Arthur MacDonald, called the police, waited five minutes, then got a knife and went after MacDonald. Confusingly, he states MacDonald “ducked him”, but he saw MacDonald re-load the gun. He went home and left again to find MacDonald. The defendant hid…