RIVES, Circuit Judge.
On April 1, 1955, Anthony Meyers was brutally shot in the back while walking on a New Orleans sidewalk. Later the wound caused his death. On the evening of April 2, 1955 at 8:50 P.M., Goins, then approximately eighteen years of age, was arrested. Since then, for nearly thirteen years he has remained in custody. The longer part of that time has been spent in death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana.
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