State v. Roberson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
1Opinion of the CourtSt. Paul, J.
Tlie defendants, Howard Roberson and Luther Plays, were jointly in-dieted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, for the murder of one Adolph Epsteine. Their appeal presents seven bills of exception. Before going into these we state the surrounding facts on which they are largely based.
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Swartz is a small settlement in the great gas fields of Ouachita parish; there the accused resided.
On the night of March 25, 1924, Adolph Epsteine, a small storekeeper near Swartz, unmarried and living alone, was secretly and brutally murdered in his store.
On July 26, 1924, the defendant Luther Hays was…
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