State v. Wynn

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Oliphant, J.

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree without recommendation of life imprisonment entered after a trial 'before a jury in the Monmouth County Court. The appellant appeals as a matter of right, Art. VI, Sec. V, par. 1(c), Const. 1948; R. R. 1:2-1 (c).

The appellant was indicted for murder under N. J. S. 2A :113-1. The indictment is in the usual short form, R. R. 3:4-3(6), formerly R. S. 2:188-11. The proof of the corpus delicti indicated a particularly brutal murder. The autopsy disclosed that the deceased died of…