State v. Defiore

GOTHARD, Judge.

The state appeals a decision granting the defendant’s motion to quash.

On July 6, 1989 the state filed a bill of information charging the defendant, Michael Defiore, with aggravated battery, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:34. The charge arose out of an alleged altercation between defendant and the victim and the subsequent stabbing of the victim on Highway 18 in St. Charles Parish.

After several continuances, the matter was set and called for trial on February 26, 1991. The defendant and his counsel were present, but when the assistant district attorney called his witnesses, four key…