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 Dupr…
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