Opinion
No. 80-KA-2850.
June 22, 1981.
APPEAL FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE JEROME M. WINSBURG, J.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Michael Campbell, J. Kevin McNary, Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.
Dwight Doskey, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.
Defendant, Kenneth Sanchez, was charged by bill of information with simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling in violation of La.R.S. 14:62.2. He was tried by a judge, convicted, and sentenced to serve two years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Defendant appeals.
Although the defendant submitted two assignments of error to the trial court, assignment one has not been briefed or argued and is, therefore, deemed abandoned. State v. Gardette, 352 So.2d 212 (La. 1977); State v. Phillips, 337 So.2d 1157 (La. 1976).
The second assignment of error requests only that we review the entire record in this matter for error patent on the face of the record pursuant to La.C.Cr.P. Art. 920(2). We find no such error.
Accordingly, the conviction and sentence are affirmed.
REDMANN, J. Pro Tem., dissents with reasons.
This Court is unconstitutionally constituted and an accused is denied due process of law by his or her case's being referred to it instead of the Louisiana Supreme Court as constituted by La.Const. Art. 5 §§ 1, 3 and 4, to which this Court should order this case referred.
[EDITORS' NOTE: DISSENTING OPINION CAN BE FOUND AT 403 So.2d 1157, 1161.]