Case ID: so2d_372/html/1039-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Lena J. WATKINS.
    No. 63899.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    May 30, 1979.
    
      Alton T. Moran, Director, Baton Rouge, Gail H. Ray, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant-appellant. •
    William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie B. Brown, Dist. Atty., David M. Miller, Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appel-lee.
   PER CURIAM.

On appeal, defendant contends that his plea of guilty, entered on June 2, 1978, to the charges of simple robbery, La.R.S. 14:65, and attempted first degree murder, La.R.S. 14:27 (14:30), was not understanding and voluntary. Such a contention is not properly raised on appeal, but must be pressed by an application for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court. See State ex rel. Clark v. Marullo, 352 So.2d 223 (La.1977); State v. Crosby, 338 So.2d 584 (La.1976).

Accordingly, defendant’s conviction and sentence are affirmed.

SUMMERS, C. J., concurs in the result only.