Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): we see no intelligent reason longer to adhere to and accordingly we overrule, the holdings in state v. williams, 340 so.2d 1382 (la. 1976) and state v. williams, 322 so.2d 177 (la. 1975), that excessiveness of sentence may not be reviewed in the absence of formal objection  there being no statutory requirement for such objection, and there being no remaining functional reason for these decisions' court-imposed requirement for the technicality of requiring an objection for such purpose.
Output (English): overruling