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Show : --- WHAT IS STATUS OF MAN SHERIFF FORGOT TO HANG? BATON ROUGE, La.. Feb. 9. : Lennls Eaton, the man the sheriff forgot to hang, may be dead leg- ally Attorney General Coco frankly frank-ly admitted today he illdn t know, but reports from Ouachita parish 1 prison where Lennie has be.?n eat-' eat-' Ing, legally or illegally, his regular I three meals a day ever since his execution day, February 4. do not indicate that his appetite has suf-i suf-i fered because of his possible defe lilie. Slu rlff Grant wrote the governor yesterday that in the press of "civil and criminal matters" February 4. he forgot tho mandate to put the negro, convicted of the murder of a while man, to death on that day. Attorney Oeneral Coco Is raking the law books for precedents. It .;x said the onco In jeopardy principle of the law might prevent anv execution. ' I |