Hunter v. State of New Jersey
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This cause came before this court by writ of error, to remove to this court the judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the county of Camden. At the May Term, 1878, of said court, Benjamin Hunter was indicted and tried for the murder of John M. Armstrong. The jury rendered a verdict of murder in the first degree, and judgment was entered upon the verdict.
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This cause came before this court by writ of error, to remove to this court the judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the county of Camden. At the May Term, 1878, of said court, Benjamin Hunter was indicted and tried for the murder of John M. Armstrong. The jury rendered a verdict of murder in the first degree, and judgment was entered upon the verdict. On the trial, a number of exceptions were taken to the evidence and to the charge of the court, the substance of which sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the first degree before the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the county of Camden, and by the authority of the recent statute relative to writs of error in capital cases, certain parts of the proceedings at his trial have been brought before this court for revision. I shall notice briefly each part thus presented, in the order in which they stand in the printed points laid before the court by his counsel.
The first and second of the objections thus made to these proceedings are of the…
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