Roubideaux v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BUSSEY, Judge:
Jackie Roubideaux was convicted in Comanche County District Court of Murder in the First Degree for the suffocation death of three and one-half year old Mary Car-pitcher. Punishment was assessed at life imprisonment.
On April 10, 1976, the body of Mary Carpitcher was found in a refrigerator within an abandoned house in Lawton. Two children playing in the house heard a noise coming from the refrigerator and opened its door. Out jumped Tina Car-pitcher, Mary’s twin sister, who had escaped death by breathing through a crack at the refrigerator’s door. She was ten years old at…
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2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Nealy v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1981
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