Legal Opinion
State v. Grillo
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 28, 1954PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Burling, J.
-These two appeals certified under R. R. 1:10-1(5) were from two comparable orders of the Essex *106County Court denying motions for new trial made by the defendants-appellants, Joseph Grillo and Silvio De Yita. The crime of which these defendants had been convicted was murder, in the first degree.
On November 9, 1951, James Law, a special officer, was shot and killed during a robbery perpetrated as he was escorting a supermarket manager from his store to a bank with the day’s receipts. The facts concerning this robbery appear in more detail in…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- United States v. WoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Dennis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Aldridge v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Spies v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Crawford v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
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3Cited by21 opinions
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1983
- United States of America, Ex Rel. Silvio De Vita v. Lloyd W. McCorkle Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New JerseyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1957
- Lopez v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. ShortSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
- State v. GilmoreNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1985
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