Legal Opinion
State v. Bates
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided September 8, 1986No. 85 KA 1998PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
495 So.2d 1262 (1986)
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Milburn Wayne BATES.
No. 85 KA 1998.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
September 8, 1986.
Rehearing Denied October 9, 1986.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Morgan Goudeau, III, Dist. Atty., David Miller, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.
Julie Cullen LeBlanc, for defendant-appellant.
COLE, Justice.
Milburn Wayne Bates was convicted of the first degree murder of Shannon Beau Clark, a hitch-hiker Bates picked up near Vidor, Texas and shot to death on a back road outside Krotz Springs, Louisiana on December 4, 1984.
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2Cases cited33 opinions
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