State v. Mason

SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

Defendants, Mason and Hughes, were each convicted of two counts of armed robbery in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:64. Hughes was sentenced under the Habitual Offender Law, R.S. 15:529.1, to fifty years at hard labor on each count to run concurrently and Mason was sentenced to thirty-five years on each count to run concurrently.

About 9:30 a.m. on June 25, 1988, El-dridge Thompson was walking through the St. Bernard Housing Project when he was approached by the defendants. Thompson recognized Hughes as someone he had often seen around the neighborhood. Hughes offered to sell…