State v. Boccadoro

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

Anthony Boccadoro, the defendant below, was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing, on the 31st of January, 1928, of one Edward C. Thompson in the town of Bloomfield, in the county of Essex, New Jersey. The jury recommended life imprisonment, and the sentence pronounced was in accordance with that recommendation. The present writ of error is sued out to test the validity of the conviction.

The first ground urged for reversal is that there was error in ’the refusal of the trial court to direct a verdict at the…