Legal Opinion
State v. Williams
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided March 18, 1963PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Proctor, J.
The defendant Bland Williams was convicted of murder in the first degree with a recommendation of life imprisonment. He appeals to this court as of right under R. R. 1:2-1 (c).
On the night of July 19-20, 1956 the Koppers Coke Company’s office building in Port Reading, Middlesex County, was broken into, its safe was removed and forced open, and its relief engineer, James Quackenbush, was brutally beaten to death. In January 1957 separate indictments were returned against Bland Williams, his brother Eugene Williams, William Butler, James…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Di Carlo v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1925
- Diggs v. WelchCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Irven Green and Robert Benjamin Smith v. United States of America, Arnold Jack Johnson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by70 opinions
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- Corbitt v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- State v. CzachorSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1980
- State v. SINCLAIRSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1967
- State v. Nunez-ValdezSupreme Court of New Jersey · 2009
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