Court Opinion

ID: 7495637
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 04:16:32.10309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:23:11.677931
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CALOGERO, Justice,
dissenting.
Because the record does not reveal whether the basis for finding the defendant guilty of negligent homicide was independent of the statutory provision that the violation of a law “. . . shall be considered only as presumptive evidence of . ” the criminal negligence which is an essential element of the crime of negligent homicide I must dissent from this af-firmance of Savoie’s conviction and sentence. See my dissent in State v. Hammontree, 363 So.2d 1364 (La.1978) and the opinion of the federal district court expressing consonant views and granting Hammontree habeas relief on the basis of its finding the presumption created by R.S. 14:32 unconstitutional. Hammontree v. Phelps, 462 F.Supp. 366 (W.D.La.1978), appeal docketed, No. 79-1307 (5th Cir. Feb. 7, 1979).