Legal Opinion

State v. Perkins

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided September 4, 1979No. 64102PublishedCited by 51 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

374 So.2d 1234 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana

v.

Roger D. PERKINS.

No. 64102.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 4, 1979.

Norman W. Ershler, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie B. Brown, Dist. Atty., Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

DIXON, Justice.

On January 17, 1977 Roger D. Perkins was charged by bill of information with distribution of dilaudid, a violation of R.S. 40:967(A)(1). Sixteen months later he was convicted as charged and was sentenced to five years imprisonment at hard labor. The court…

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2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. United States v. MarionSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. State v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1976
  4. State v. HowardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1972
  5. United States v. Thiery M. BuegeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978

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3Cited by51 opinions

  1. State v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  2. State v. DeweySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1982
  3. State v. BurkhalterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  4. State v. SweeneySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  5. State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1989

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