STATE v. WOODS

No. 81-KA-0528.

406 So.2d 158 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Joseph WOODS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, John H. Craft, Richard Pitre, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

David F. Craig, Jr., and Dwight Doskey, of Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.


LEMMON, Justice.*

This appeal by defendant encompasses two separate convictions, one of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and the second of possession of a controlled dangerous substance. The only assignment of error relates to the trial court's denial of the motion to suppress the weapon and the drugs.

Two police officers received information in the early evening from a reliable confidential informer that defendant...

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