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State v. Brown

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 28, 1974No. 54911PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

302 So.2d 290 (1974)

STATE of Louisiana

v.

Joseph A. BROWN and William Matthews.

No. 54911.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 28, 1974.

James C. Dixon, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie Brown, Dist. Atty., Warren J. Hebert, Special Prosecutor to Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

SANDERS, Chief Justice.

The Grand Jury of East Baton Rouge Parish indicted Joseph A. Brown and William H. Matthews for aggravated rape. LSA-R.S. 14:42. The trial jury returned a verdict of guilty without capital punishment. On April 24,…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. People v. BurtonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1961
  3. State v. RichmondSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1973
  4. State v. FallonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1974
  5. State v. ReeseSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1967

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. State v. HatcherSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1979
  2. State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977
  3. State v. AndersonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1983
  4. State v. ElzieSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977
  5. State v. BatisteSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1975

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