State v. Welch

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Defendant, Richard Welch, prosecutes this appeal from his conviction and sentence to serve 15 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary on a charge by bill of information 1 with armed robbery 2 of one Wilfred Donald.

Appellant relies for reversal of his conviction and sentence on two alleged errors committed during the course of the trial to which timely obj ections were made and bills reserved. The first was taken when the trial judge allowed, over defendant’s objection, the State’s witness, Benjamin Seymour, to testify as to a prior similar crime committed against…