PER CURIAM.
The three appellants here were convicted of murder in the first degree after a jury-trial in Hilo.
On or about July 29, 1977, Benny Madamba died from a blow to the head which fractured his skull. On August 19, 1977, Madamba's badly decomposed body which was wrapped in bedding, was found in a canefield near Keaau, Hawaii. The bedding was traced to one Louis Mendonca and on August 29, 1978, after a grant of immunity and police protection, Mendonca...
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