MACK v. WALKER

No. 21993.

372 F.2d 170 (1966)

Adam Amos MACK and Shelton Williams, Appellants, v. Victor G. WALKER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 26, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob S. Landry, New Iberia, La., James Domengeaux, Lafayette, La., A. J. Resweber, New Iberia, La., for appellants.

Knowles M. Tucker, Dist. Atty., New Iberia, La., T. W. Airhart, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for appellee.

Before WISDOM and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners, Mack and Williams, were indicted in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, for murder, convicted, and sentenced to death. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. State v. Mack, 1962, 243 La. 369, 144 So.2d 363, cert. denied 1963, 373 U.S. 917, 83 S.Ct. 1306, 10 L.Ed.2d 416. The petitioners then filed this habeas corpus...

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