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STATE v. HILL

No. 54513.

297 So.2d 660 (1974)

STATE of Louisiana v. William HILL, III.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 1, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murphy W. Bell, Director, Woodson T. Callihan, Jr., Trial Atty., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie Brown, Dist. Atty., Ralph L. Roy, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert G. Pugh, Shreveport, for amicus curiae.

SANDERS, Chief Justice.

This is a murder prosecution. The Grand Jury of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, indicted William Hill, III, for first degree murder of Tracy M. Lathers, in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:30, paragraph 4, applying to a homicide in which the offender "has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon more than one person." Under the statute, as amended by Act 109 of 1973, the crime of first degree murder is punished by death.<...

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