State v. Cox

WEIMER, Justice. 1

hThe State’s writ application was granted to determine the correct interpretation of LSA-R.S. 14:96 which defines the crime of aggravated obstruction of a highway of commerce as “the intentional or criminally negligent placing of anything, or performance of any act, on any ... highway ... wherein it is foreseeable that human life might be endangered.”

For reasons that follow, we reverse the ruling of the court of appeal, reinstate the jury verdict and sentences imposed by the trial court, and remand to the court of appeal for consideration of pretermitted issues not addressed…