FOURNET, Chief Justice.
The defendant, Donald E. Benjamin, is appealing from his conviction on a charge by indictment with the murder of Dorothy Spadoni and sentence to death.
According to the record, the accused, armed with a long knife, entered a washateria near midnight on August 13, 1965 as James W. Colbert and Miss Dorothy Spadoni were about to complete certain laundering, whereupon he forced them into a closet-like opening at the rear of the room and...
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