State v. Martin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Katzenbach, J.

This case is before us upon a writ of error directed to the Essex County Court of Oyer and Terminer. The writ has brought to this court for review the conviction of Frank Martin of murder in the first degree. The cas'e is before us on strict writ of error as well as under the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of the Criminal Procedure act. On May 23d, 1925, at about three-thirty p. m., Frank Martin came to his home in Bloomfield, Mew Jersey, lie lived with his wife, his daughter Violet Smith, wife of A. G. Smith; a daughter Helen and a…