People v. Fitzgerald

The defendant was tried upon an information charging him with murder, in the killing of one John Lennon. He was convicted of murder in the second degree, and appeals from the judgment entered on the verdict, and also from the order denying him a new trial.

Up to the time that the cause was called on the calendar no briefs or points had been filed. Counsel other than the one who represented the defendant on the trial in the court below appeared and argued the case orally. Some two months or more after the cause was submitted, the attorney who represented the defendant on the trial made…