Opinion ID: 1725524
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Ballot Envelopes

Text: Testimony Pertaining to Counts I and II. Gordon McFarland and Minnie McFarland. ¶ 7. The State presented at trial Gordon McFarland, who happens to be the uncle of candidate McFarland, who testified that: in September and October of 1991, he was living in New Orleans; Minnie McFarland, his wife, was living in Chicago; neither of them ever lived at 3805 Houma Boulevard, Metairie, Louisiana, which was listed as their address on the ballot application and envelope; he had never applied for an absentee ballot; the signatures purporting to be that of Gordon McFarland on the ballot application and ballot envelope marked Exhibit S-1 are not his; and, he voted at the polls, not by absentee ballot. ¶ 8. Pam Schwartz testified for the State that she was the accounts leasing manager of Camelot Apartments, the address of which is 3805 Houma Boulevard, Metairie, Louisiana; and, that she was the custodian of the lease and payment records of this apartment complex. According to Schwartz, during the period between July 17, 1989, and July 31, 1992, Patricia McFarland (candidate McFarland's sister), leased and was the only occupant of apartment A-215. ¶ 9. Frank Hicks [4] (Hicks), the State's handwriting expert, testified that he had strong reason to believe that Sewell was the writer of the Sandra D. Sewell attestation signatures in Exhibits S-1 and S-2 [5] .