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WILLIAMS v. DUTTON

No. 25349.

400 F.2d 797 (1968)

Venson Eugene WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. A. L. DUTTON, Warden of the State Prison at Reidsville, Georgia, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 20, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn A. Downey, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

Alfred L. Evans, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Before GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges, and EDENFIELD, District Judge.

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

Sometime in the early morning hours of April 17, 1964, three police officers were brutally shot to death and left lying in a pine thicket in Gwinnett County, Georgia. A year and a half later, appellant Venson Eugene Williams was tried before a jury in the Gwinnett County Superior Court for the murder of one of the officers. He was convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair. After exhausting all his state remedies,1...

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