Fairris v. State

1 On July 16, 1954, city detective Bennie Cravatt was killed while attempting to stop a robbery being committed in the Jones Boys Grocery Store at 44th and Shields streets in Oklahoma City. Thereafter an information was filed in the District Court of Oklahoma County charging the defendant, Hurbie Franklin Fairris, James Edward Skinner, Raymond Carroll Price and Peggy Fry with the murder of Cravatt; a severance was granted, the defendant Fairris was tried, convicted and pursuant to the verdict of the jury was sentenced to death in the electric chair and has appealed.