Bullock v. State
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the cpunty of Monmouth. The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in causing-the death of James Walsh, a constable of the county of Monmouth, on ^November 13th, 1899. At the trial he was convicted of murder of the first degree and sentenced to death.. Thereupon he sued out this writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court ivas delivered by
Depue, Ci-iiee Justice.
The first assignment of error is-directed to the form of the indictment. The indictment con*561tains two counts: First, a count in the statutory form prescribed by the forty-fifth section of the act regulating proceedings in criminal cases. Rev., p. 275; Pamph L. 1898, p. 879, § 36. In this count the statutory language was followed, chargiirg that the accused “willfully, feloniously, deliberately and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided,” &c. This form of…
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