Adams v. State

This case involves the infliction of the death penalty on the appellant as the result of his being found guilty of murder in the first degree, having killed the companion of a girl whom he also raped. We affirmed the judgment of the trial court which imposed the death penalty; DeBruler, J. concurring and dissenting with separate opinion, Prentice, J. concurring therein and also dissenting by separate opinion. Adams v. State (1971), 271 N. E. 2d 425.

The appellant has. filed a petition for rehearing raising the constitutionality of the death penalty. We have delayed ruling upon this petition…