STATE v. GOINS

No. 43017.

94 So.2d 244 (1957)

232 La. 238

STATE of Louisiana v. Thomas GOINS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. McGovern, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leon D. Hubert, Jr., Dist. Atty., Edward A. Haggerty, Jr., James C. Garrison, Asst. Dist. Attys., Aubrey C. Evans, New Orleans, for appellee.


HAMITER, Justice.

In cause No. 149-978 on the docket of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans the defendant herein, Thomas Goins, and one Bejamin Mackey, both colored and approximately 18 years of age, were charged jointly in an indictment with the murder of Anthony Meyers on April 1, 1955. That indictment, however, was nolle prosequied when a new Grand Jury, containing Negro members, reindicted them on the same charge.

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