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PIERRE v. LOUISIANA

No. 142.

306 U.S. 354 (1939)

59 S.Ct. 536

83 L.Ed. 757

PIERRE v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 27, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Maurice R. Woulfe for petitioner.

Mr. John E. Fleury, with whom Messrs. Gaston L. Porterie, Attorney General of Louisiana, James O'Connor, Assistant Attorney General, and Ernest M. Conzelmann were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Indicted for murder, petitioner, a member of the negro race, was convicted and sentenced to death in a state court of the Parish of St. John the Baptist, Louisiana. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed.1 His petition for certiorari to review the Louisiana Supreme Court's judgment rested upon the grave claim — earnestly, but unsuccessfully...

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