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GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS v. BENNETT

No. 18540.

427 F.2d 535 (1970)

GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS v. Pedro BENNETT, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1970.

Rehearing Denied September 25, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald H. Tonkin, Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I., for appellant.

Robert M. Carney, U. S. Atty., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I., for appellee.

Before FREEDMAN, SEITZ and VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of first degree murder, 14 V.I.Code §§ 921-23, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. This appeal followed.

The sequence of events which culminated in the homicide commenced when defendant and three other teenage boys got into a fight with decedent's wife and a male friend with whom she was walking. The wife ran to her home nearby and her husband then came out to the scene...

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