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GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS v. RIVERA SOLIS

No. 15261.

359 F.2d 518 (1966)

GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS v. Hipolito RIVERA SOLIS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 9, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell B. Johnson, Christiansted, St. Croix, V. I., for appellant.

Almeric L. Christian, U. S. Atty., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I. (John E. Stout, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I., on the brief), for appellee.

Before KALODNER, Chief Judge, and MARIS and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.

Argued at Charlotte Amalie January 31, 1966.

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal we review a conviction of murder in the first degree and the consequent mandatory sentence of life imprisonment under the law of the Virgin Islands.

The victim of the homicide, an elderly country storekeeper, was killed by blows upon the head inflicted with some blunt instrument. The assault occurred at night in a rural area of St. Croix. The screams of the victim attracted...

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