State v. Maxey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PIaneman, J.

The appeal herein concerns the denial by the Union County Court of defendant’s motion for correction of an allegedly illegal sentence.

Defendant was indicted on two counts of murder. Each of the two counts concerned a separate and distinct homicide. In that connection the County Court stated:

“One murder * * * involved the killing of a woman by knocking her to the ground and running a heavy automobile back and forth over her body. The other murder occurred some minutes later when defendant strangled another woman with a man’s trouser belt.…