State v. Lynch

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

Plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the first degree, and was sentenced to death. He sued out a writ of error; and the entire record of the proceedings had upon the trial of the cause was returned with the bill of exceptions, pursuant to R. S. 2:195-16.

The victim, George 0. Miller, was a police officer of the Borough of Clementon. The accused was a justice of the peace resident in a town nearly. Por some time prior to the killing, he had had a meretricious relationship with a woman named Mitchell, a resident of Clementon. They…