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State v. Pipkins

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit
Mar 14, 1984
447 So. 2d 103 (La. Ct. App. 1984)

Opinion

No. KA 1248.

March 14, 1984.

APPEAL FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE ALVIN OSER, J.

Dwight Doskey, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for Louis Pipkins, defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Beryl M. McSmith, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for State of La., plaintiff-appellee.

Before CIACCIO, LOBRANO and WARD, JJ.


Louis Pipkins was convicted by a jury of armed robbery. The State charged that Pipkins was also a multiple offender. After a hearing on that issue, the Trial Judge found he was a multiple offender and sentenced Pipkins to thirty-three years at hard labour without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Pipkins appeals and asks that we review the record for errors patent. There are none.

We have also reviewed the record for sufficiency of evidence to support the appellant's conviction. State v. Raymo, 419 So.2d 858 (La. 1982). We find that viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, a rational finder of fact could have found that each and every element of armed robbery had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 309,99 S.Ct. 2781, 2789, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979); State v. Fuller, 414 So.2d 306, 310 (La. 1982).

The conviction and sentence are affirmed.

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

State v. Pipkins

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit
Mar 14, 1984
447 So. 2d 103 (La. Ct. App. 1984)
Case details for

State v. Pipkins

Case Details

Full title:STATE OF LOUISIANA v. LOUIS PIPKINS

Court:Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit

Date published: Mar 14, 1984

Citations

447 So. 2d 103 (La. Ct. App. 1984)