State v. Potts

NORRIS, Judge.

The defendant, Roosevelt Potts, was charged by bill of indictment, docket No. 49,081, with aggravated battery in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:34. Defendant initially pled not guilty but pursuant to a plea bargain, withdrew that plea and entered a plea of guilty. In return, the state dropped an aggravated battery charge in docket No. 49,082 which stemmed from a separate incident; in addition, on the same date, the assistant district attorney handwrote at the bottom of bill of indictment No. 49,081, “amended to one count agg. battery.” Pri- or to sentencing, the defendant filed a…