Case Name: STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Carolyn CLARK, Appellant
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1976-12-13
Citations: 340 So. 2d 1390
Docket Number: No. 58224
Parties: STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Carolyn CLARK, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 340
Pages: 1390–1391

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Carolyn CLARK, Appellant.
No. 58224.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Dec. 13, 1976.
L. Howard McCurdy, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for appellant.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Con-nick, Dist. Atty., Louise S. Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Opinion:
TATE, Justice.
The defendant was convicted of attempted distribution of heroin, La.R.S. 14:27, 40:966, and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor. On her appeal, she relies upon two assignments of error, both relating to the sufficiency of the evidence by which she was convicted.
The assignments were perfected as to the denial of her motions for acquittal, La.C.Cr.P. art. 778, and for a new trial, La.C.Cr.P. art. 851. For appellate purposes, these assignments do not raise a reversible issue, unless there is a total lack of evidence to prove the defendant's guilt of the crime charged or of an essential element of it. State v. Williams, 310 So.2d 513 (La.1975); State v. Pryor, 306 So.2d 675 (La.1975).
In the present case, an undercover narcotics agent testified on behalf of the state as an eyewitness to a transaction in which the defendant sold heroin to two individuals. As provided by La.R.S. 14:27 C ("Attempt"), " any person may be convicted of an attempt to commit a crime, although it appears on the trial that the crime intended or attempted was actually perpetrated by such person in pursuance of such attempt." Some evidence thus proves the offense of which the defendant is convicted.
Finding no merit to the assignments of error, we affirm the conviction and sentence.
AFFIRMED.