Case ID: so2d_392/html/0649-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DIXON, C. J., DENNIS, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Leon ROBERTSON v. Frank C. BLACKBURN, Warden.
    No. 80-K-1518.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 13, 1981.
   In Re: Leon Robertson applying for Writs of Certiorari, Prohibition, Mandamus and Habeas Corpus, Parish of Bossier, No. 55,783.

Denied.

DIXON, C. J.,

concurs in the denial. The specific intent necessary for 2nd degree murder may be the intent to do great bodily harm. Relator admitted hitting the victim with his rifle, which “went off”.

DENNIS, J.,

would grant an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the relator’s plea of guilty was voluntary as to the specific intent element of second degree murder. See, Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637, 96 S.Ct. 2253, 49 L.Ed.2d 108 (1976).