People v. Buchalter

The defendants were indicted with three others for the crime of murder in the first degree. They were represented by able counsel during a.trial which lasted about eleven weeks. The record of the trial consists of more than four thousand pages in addition to the twenty-seven hundred pages containing the examination of talesmen.

The questions of law presented by defendants’ counsel may best be examined agáinst the background of the facts as found by the jury and the facts are therefore set forth with reasonable fullness as a preface.

The deceased Joseph Rosen was present in his small candy store…