People v. Fisher

These defendants were tried together and convicted of murder in the first degree committed while engaged in a felony.

During the first month of this year many' robberies had been perpetrated in Brooklyn drug stores. Police officers had been .detailed to protect these establishments and were stationed in some of them. On the night of January 31, William E. Kelly, an officer in plain clothes on duty in the rear of the store conducted by Irving Stoller at Nostrand avenue and Crown street, was shot and killed. Three young men were driven by a fourth to the store in a taxicab. All except the driver…