State v. Sage

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Black, J.

Frank Sage, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of murder in the first degree, without recommendation for life sentence by the jury, for killing John J. Black, a police sergeant of Jersey City.

The facts leading up to and surrounding the killing of Black by Sage, the plaintiff in error, as disclosed by the record, are thus summarized. On November 18th, 1921, Sage was sentenced on a plea of non vult, to an indictment for entering and larceny, to the state prison by the Passaic Quarter Sessions. On July 7th, 1922, he with other prisoners were…