State v. Booke

Defendant, Elroy Michael Booke was convicted on two counts of attempted mitigated deliberate homicide by jury verdict in the District Court of Carbon County. He was thereafter sentenced to two terms of forty years each in the state prison at Deer Lodge, Montana. The sentences are to be served consecutively.

During the early morning hours of April 9, 1977, Laurie Guptill and Gary Segmiller were each found unconscious with bullet wounds in their heads near the home of Laurie Guptill, located in rural area south of Rockvale, Montana.

The two victims were found by a group of four friends, which…