State v. Perkins

EZELL, Judge.

h Defendant, Bryce W. Perkins, was convicted by a jury of second degree murder after being indicted by a Calcasieu Parish Grand Jury. The trial court then granted Defendant’s motion for post verdict judgment of acquittal, which requested a reduction to manslaughter, a violation of La. R.S. 14:31. Defendant then waived sentencing delays, and the court sentenced him to thirty years at hard labor, the first twenty without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

The State now appeals the trial court’s ruling on the motion for post verdict judgment of acquittal,…