State v. Williams
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Somerset Oyer and Terminer. The plaintiff in error, Alonzo Williams, was indicted for the murder of Benjamin Wooley. Both men were convicts detained in the state camp in Somerset county. On the afternoon of May 2d, 1915, during a game of baseball Wooley accused Williams of tripping him while running the bases and some angry words were exchanged between the two men who had previously been friends.
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On error to the Somerset Oyer and Terminer. The plaintiff in error, Alonzo Williams, was indicted for the murder of Benjamin Wooley. Both men were convicts detained in the state camp in Somerset county. On the afternoon of May 2d, 1915, during a game of baseball Wooley accused Williams of tripping him while running the bases and some angry words were exchanged between the two men who had previously been friends. When the game was over Wooley went into the dormitory, which was near the. ball ground, and sat down on his bed. Williams also entered the dormitory still carrying in his hand the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Garrison, J.
In a criminal case the record or judgment roll, as it is indifferently called, must show the issue (indictment and plea), tire presence of a court and jury, the verdict rendered by the jury and the judgment pronounced thereon by the court. Clifford v. Hudson Oyer and Terminer, 61 N. J. L. 493.
Between the last two of these essentials, i. e., the verdict and the judgment, the legal relation is such that the question whether or not the verdict justifies the judgment will be reviewed by an appellate court upon error assigned on sucli record.
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