State v. Carney

The defendant, Willie Carney, Jr., appeals from a conviction of Armed Robbery, La.R.S. 14:64, for which he was sentenced to serve forty (40) years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary.

The defendant reserved and perfected two bills of exceptions. The first bill of exceptions was taken to testimonial evidence of another armed robbery which took place on October 13, 1970, three days before the armed robbery with which defendant was charged in the instant case.

In his per curiam to this bill of exceptions, the trial judge stated that he allowed the evidence of a prior crime, under the authority…