Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Mark O'CONNER
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1984-05-30
Citations: 451 So. 2d 1192
Docket Number: No. 84-K-200
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Mark O’CONNER.
Judges: Before BOUTALL, BOWES and DU-FRESNE, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 451
Pages: 1192–1192

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Mark O’CONNER.
No. 84-K-200.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.
May 30, 1984.
Writ Denied June 25, 1984.
Mark McTernan, McTernan, Parr & Ru-mage, New Orleans, for relator Mark O’Conner.
William C. Credo, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., Gretna, for respondent State of Louisiana.
Before BOUTALL, BOWES and DU-FRESNE, JJ.

Opinion:
BOUTALL, Judge.
Applicant was charged in First Parish Court for the Parish of Jefferson with the crime of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant, LRS 14:98.
Prior to trial applicant filed a motion demanding a jury trial which was denied by the trial judge. Applicant has applied to us for supervisory writs to annul the judge's denial of jury trial and to order a jury trial held.
We have discussed this issue of entitlement to jury trial at length in State of Louisiana v. Vieto, — So.2d - (La.1984). For the reasons therein expressed we conclude the ruling complained of is correct.
Writs refused.