State v. Merra

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs in. error were convicted upon an indictment charging them with the felonious killing of one Theodore Conway, who was an assistant paymaster in the employ of the Public Service Corporation. His murder occurred on the 4th of June, 1926, and, as the state charged, in an attempt by the plaintiffs in error and others to rob a pay car of the corporation, of which he was in charge, while it was standing at the corporation’s car barn, at the corner of Central avenue and Fourteenth street, in the city of Newark. The fact…