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STATE v. GREEN

No. 81-KA-2661.

416 So.2d 539 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. Jessie GREEN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 21, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie Brown, Dist. Atty., William Weatherford and Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Frank Saia, M. Michele Fournet, David Randall Buckley, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

H. CHARLES GAUDIN, Justice Pro Tempore.*

Jessie Green was convicted of first degree murder1 of his common law wife, Katie Riley, and sentenced to life imprisonment without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence.

He had tried unsuccessfully to convince a 12-person jury that there had been sufficient provocation to justify a verdict of manslaughter.2

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