State v. Taylor

Herman Taylor, Donald Rylich, George O’Day, and Ito Jacks, or Jacques, were convicted of the murder of Raymond Rizzo, and, from the conviction and sentence of death imposed thereunder appeal to this court.

There appears to be no serious dispute as to the facts established by the record, although appellants contend that some of these facts were proved by illegal evidence, admitted over their objections, and we think it wiU be helpful to our discussion of the issues presented by the appeal to briefly set forth these facts. They are as follows, viz.:

Ito Jacks, or Jacques, a New Orleans negro,…