People v. Feolo

On September 14,1931, Sergeant Timothy F. Murphy of the police department of the city of New York was shot and killed when he interrupted three persons in their commission of a robbery in a speakeasy on East Thirteenth street, Manhattan.

Six years later, Emilio Funicello informed the authorities that the robbery in the speakeasy had been committed by Joseph Feolo, Norman Brabson and Carl Summerfeld at the instigation of Albert Mastrone. These four were thereupon indicted for murder in the first degree. On a first trial the jury disagreed. A second trial resulted in a judgment of death which…