State v. Merra

This is an application for a writ of error in behalf of the defendants, who were convicted of murder in the first degree in the Essex oyer and terminer, Merra without recommendation to life imprisonment, and, consequently, he has been sentenced to death; Ranelli, alias Piccoli, was recommended for life imprisonment, and he, consequently, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. Although not sentenced to death, the case of Ranelli, or Piccoli, is a capital case, in which the death penalty may yet (in case of conviction on a retrial without recommendation) be inflicted. State v. Giberson,…