Legal Opinion
State v. Mount
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 17, 1959PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Jacobs, J.
The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree without any recommendation of life imprisonment. He was sentenced to death and appealed to this court as of right under Article VI, Section V, paragraph 1 of the Constitution.
The body of Euth Lowe Petrosky was discovered during the evening of August 7, 1957 in the cellar of the apartment building where she had lived with her husband and children. She had been brutally stabbed to death and her injuries, which had apparently been inflicted by means of a thin blade, included 13 or 14…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Stroud v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Fisher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Commonwealth v. SimmonsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
- People v. GreenCalifornia Supreme Court · 1956
- State v. OwenIdaho Supreme Court · 1953
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3Cited by59 opinions
- United States v. JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- State v. RamseurSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1987
- People v. MorseCalifornia Supreme Court · 1964
- State v. MarshallSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1991
- Hill v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1983
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