Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Andrew A. SAVOIE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1979-03-14
Citations: 368 So. 2d 1095
Docket Number: No. 63295
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Andrew A. SAVOIE.
Judges: TATE, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 368
Pages: 1095–1095

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Andrew A. SAVOIE.
No. 63295.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 14, 1979.
Alvis J. Roche, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellant.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Knapp, Dist. Atty., Gregory D. Lyons, Alcide Gray, Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed.
TATE, J., concurs.
There is some evidence of gross negligence. Insofar as the appellant urges that an unconstitutional presumption of negligence (by reason of statutory violation) was used against him, Hammontree v. Phelps, 462 F.Supp. 366 (W.D.La.1978), the issue is not before us because the judge was not required to instruct himself as to the law, and the record affords us no basis for review of this issue.
CALOGERO, J., dissents and assigns reasons.