Legal Opinion
State v. Brown
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided September 23, 1987No. 18887-KAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JASPER E. JONES, Judge.
The defendant, Arthur P. Brown, Jr., was convicted of manslaughter, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:31, and was sentenced to serve twelve years at hard labor.1 He appeals the conviction and sentence.
We affirm.
FACTS
During the early morning hours of July 13, 1985, a family disturbance in Rayville, Louisiana, resulted in a homicide when the defendant fired a pistol into a single family residence. The defendant was arrested and subsequently charged by a grand jury with the second degree murder of the deceased and with the attempted second degree murder of the defendant’s…
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