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PRICE v. GEORGIA

No. 269.

398 U.S. 323 (1970)

90 S.Ct. 1757

26 L.Ed.2d 300

PRICE v. GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 15, 1970

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allyn M. Wallace argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Mathew Robins, Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, and Marion O. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted the writ to consider the power of a State to retry an accused for murder after an earlier guilty verdict on the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter had been set aside because of a trial error.

Petitioner was charged with the killing of Johnnie Mae Dupree in an indictment for the offense of murder filed in the Superior Court of Effingham County, Georgia. He entered a plea...

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