Case ID: so2d_371/html/1331-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TATE, CALOGERO and DENNIS, JJ.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. David C. BAILEY.
    No. 64707.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 11, 1979.
   In re David C. Bailey, applying for writs of certiorari, prohibition and mandamus. Parish of Calcasieu. No. 3210-79.

Denied.

TATE, CALOGERO and DENNIS, JJ.,

dissent. An indigent defendant charged with first degree murder cannot be denied the means of proving a defense, if any, of insanity. The constitutional right of indigents to be assured effective representation of counsel requires the state to afford this defendant’s counsel the relief desired. The state risks reversal of any conviction obtained by its denial to the defendant of this constitutional right.