State v. Washington

COLE, Judge.

Defendant, Melvin Washington, was convicted on October 14, 1971 of murder in violation of La.R.S. 14:30 and sentenced to death. In State v. Washington, 278 So.2d 484 (La.1973), the Louisiana Supreme Court held defendant’s death sentence illegal and remanded his case to the trial court where he was resentenced to life imprisonment. Defendant has now perfected an out-of-time appeal of his conviction and sentence requesting only that this court review the record for patent error. We affirm.

The only patent error revealed by our review of the record is the omission from the grand jury…