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STATE v. CAIN

No. 57106.

324 So.2d 830 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana v. Clyde CAIN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 22, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, Ralph Whalen, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellant.

John Unsworth, New Orleans, Mary Olive Pierson, McKernan, Beychok, Cooper, Screen & Pierson, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

SUMMERS, Justice.

Donald Ruiz and William Moore were murdered on November 21, 1973. The Orleans Parish grand jury returned an indictment charging Clyde Cain and William Burman with the first degree murder of both Ruiz and Moore.

Although indicted for both murders, Cain and Burman were tried on October 23, 1974 solely for the murder of Ruiz. The jury returned a general verdict of not guilty, acquitting the defendants of the murder of Ruiz.

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