State v. Cripps

McCALEB, Chief Justice.

James Edward Cripps and Larry Joe Purkey were indicted, tried and convicted of the murder of Taylor McLaurin, Jr., in New Orleans on February 27, 1968. Following imposition of death sentences they prosecuted this appeal relying on nineteen bills of exceptions reserved during the proceedings below for reversal of their convictions.

The pertinent facts of the case, as shown by the perfected bills, reveal that Mc-Laurin, a 1968 Carnival visitor, met the appellants and one Danny Franklin, aliasBoudreau, at an Iberville Street lounge on the evening of the killing and bought…