State V. Taylor

On January 27, 1999, a DeSoto Parish grand jury indicted Michael Taylor, defendant herein, for the first degree murder of Chester Howell, in violation of R.S. 14:30. After a trial by jury, defendant was found guilty as charged on July 16, 2000, and was sentenced to death. Defendant now directly appeals his conviction and sentence, raising nineteen assignments of error, variously combined into sixteen arguments. *fn1