State v. Duncan

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Joseph Duncan, was convicted in the City Court of Baton Rouge of unlawfully operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, in violation of Article 98, Louisiana Criminal Code, LSA-RS 14:98, and sentenced as a second offender to seven months in the parish jail, the judge having taken judicial notice of the fact that the defendant had been previously convicted in the City Court of a similar offense under an ordinance of the City of Baton Rouge and having decided that this was a second conviction within the meaning of paragraph 3…