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STATE v. MACK

No. 46027.

144 So.2d 363 (1962)

243 La. 369

STATE of Louisiana v. Adam Amos MACK, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Willis, St. Martinsville, A. J. Resweber, Jacob S. Landry, New Iberia, James Domengeaux and Bob F. Wright, Lafayette, for appellants.

Jack P. F. Germillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Knowles M. Tucker, Dist. Atty., Michael J. McNulty, Jr., Patrick T. Caffery, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellee.

SANDERS, Justice.

The defendants, Adam Amos Mack, Jr. and Shelton Joseph Williams, appeal from their convictions of murder and sentences to death.

The circumstances of the crime are particularly brutal and revolting. On the evening of June 25, 1960, Mack, Williams and Kerry Joseph Feast, Jr., Negroes residing at Lafayette, travelled by automobile from Lafayette to a grocery store at New Iberia. They arrived in the vicinity of the store about 11:00 P.M. Feast...

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