State v. Jarreau

BARRY, Judge.

The defendant was charged with aggravated battery and convicted of second degree battery. La.R.S. 14:34.1. He was sentenced to four years at hard labor after which the court invoked La.R.S. 14:95.2 to add two years to the sentence. The two year sentence is to run consecutively without benefit of parole, probation, suspension of sentence or credit for good time.

The victim, Winfield Barnes, testified that he attended a softball game and a post-game party on April 14, 1986. On his way home the defendant (an acquaintance) yelled at Barnes to stop and after a brief verbal exchange…