State v. Baldwin

705 So.2d 1076 (1997)

STATE of Louisiana

v.

James S. BALDWIN, IV.

No. 96-KA-1660.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 12, 1997.

Rehearing Denied January 30, 1998.

Daryl Gold, Shreveport, for Applicant.

Richard P. Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., Don M. Burkett, Dist. Atty., Clifford R. Strider, III, for Respondent.

LEMMON, Justice.[*]

This is a direct appeal to this court from a conviction of four counts of first degree murder and a sentence of death. La. Const. art. V, § 5(D). The principal issue is the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the four convictions of first degree murder.[1]

Facts

On July 14, 1994,…