State v. Bunk

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Oliphant, J.

This is defendants’ appeal, by virtue of the Constitution, Art. VI, § V, par. 1 (c) and Rule 1:2—1 (c), from a judgment entered in the Essex County Court following their conviction by a jury of murder in the first degree without recommendation. The Court, as it was required to do, imposed the death sentence.

The jury, from the evidence adduced, could have found the following facts. Defendants Jellison and Bunk, together with one Yanuzzi who was jointly indicted with these defendants but who had not been apprehended at the time of trial, met…