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DEMPS v. STATE

Nos. 41443, 41444, 41450 and 41451.

272 So.2d 803 (1973)

Bennie Eddie DEMPS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Jackie HARDIE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearings Denied February 28, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlow C. Middleton, Mt. Dora, and George E. Hovis, Clermont, for Bennie Eddie Demps, Frederick J. Catalano, Eustis, and Robert E. Austin, Jr., Leesburg, for Jackie Hardie, appellants.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We are here reviewing the consolidated cases in which each of the two appellants was convicted of two counts of first degree murder. Each received two sentences of death by electrocution. Subsequent to their convictions, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of Furman v. Georgia,1 and upon authority of the Furman case, this Court, in Case No. 42,789, reported...

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