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RIPPY v. STATE

550 S.W.2d 636 (1977)

Richard Haynes RIPPY and Joe Ned Crenshaw, Petitioners, v. STATE of Tennessee, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe P. Lane, Jr., Carthage, Frank D. Farrar, Lafayette, for petitioners.

R.A. Ashley, Atty. Gen., R. Jackson Rose, David Raybin, Asst. Attys. Gen., Nashville, Nat Baxter Key, Jr., District Atty. Gen., Carthage, for respondent.

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

Petitioners were convicted of murder in the first degree in the Criminal Court at Hartsville and sentenced to death by electrocution. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the convictions, and we granted certiorari.

These convictions grew out of an armed robbery that occurred on the night of 3 May 1974, of a liquor store located in Hartsville, the county seat of Trousdale County, resulting in one man being killed and another...

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