Case ID: so2d_399/html/0210-03.html
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Author: {"author": "MARCUS, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. John Wayne TONNUBBEE.
    No. 81-K-1090.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    April 27, 1981.
   In re John Wayne Tonnubbee, applying for supervisory writ of review, and stay order. Parish of St. Charles. Nos. 80-143, 80-151.

Granted in part and denied in part. The ruling of the trial judge on the admissibility of the “Big Chief” statement is reversed; on the record before us the statement is inadmissible. The ruling of the trial judge as to the conversation between Defendant and Odon is affirmed.

MARCUS, J.,

concurs in part and dissents in part. I consider that both statements are admissible as part of the res gestae. La. R.S. 15:447; State v. Drew, 360 So.2d 500 (La.1978).