Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Steve PERKINS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1977-03-09
Citations: 343 So. 2d 730
Docket Number: No. 58702
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Steve PERKINS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 343
Pages: 730–730

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Steve PERKINS.
No. 58702.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 9, 1977.
C. Alvin Tyler, C. Alvin Tyler & Associates, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty.. Gen., Ossie Brown, Dist. Atty., Ralph L. Roy, Marilyn C. Castle, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Defendant's conviction is affirmed, but the death penalty imposed is annulled and set aside, and the case is remanded to the district court, with instructions to sentence defendant to imprisonment at hard labor for life without eligibility for parole, probation or suspension of sentence for a period of twenty years. Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 325, 96 S.Ct. 3001, 49 L.Ed.2d 974 (1976); State v. Jenkins, 340 So.2d 157 (La.1976).