Facts of the Crime:
On January 29, 1982, James E. Billiot was indicted for capital murder by a Hancock County grand jury. The indictment charged that, on November 26, 1981, Thanksgiving Day, Billiot, using an eight-pound sledgehammer, bludgeoned to death his stepfather, mother, and fourteen-year-old stepsister. In addition, the indictment alleged that the murder of Billiot's stepfather, Wallace Croll, Jr., occurred contemporaneously with a robbery upon him.
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