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391 F.2d 285

Docket No. 24624.

Wilson v. Allgood

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1968-03-21

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently March 1997

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

2 counsel of record

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Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1968-03-21

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Bruce C. Waltzer, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Leonard E. Yokum, Hammond, La., Teddy W. Airhart, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for appellee.

Before COLEMAN and CLAYTON, Circuit Judges, and JOHNSON, District judge.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

In this appeal from the denial of habeas corpus in a state court conviction carrying the death penalty, and in which the issue is alleged systematic exclusion of Negroes from county jury panels, the incomplete nature of the record is such that we decline to reverse on the merits but we likewise have an abiding conviction that the ends of justice, for both the state and the convict, require that we vacate the judgment below and remand the case with directions that a complete factual record be developed, to which controlling constitutional principles may, with confidence, be applied.

¶2

Vacated and remended, with directions.

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