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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Johnnie S. WHEAT.
    No. 81-K-1292.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 9, 1981.
   In re Johnnie S. Wheat, applying for remedial writs. Parish of East Baton Rouge. No. 8-80-331.

Writ granted. The defendant s conviction and sentence are reversed and the defendant is discharged. There is no evidence from which a trier of fact could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the sale occurred within a jurisdiction in which it was illegal.