State v. Zied

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pekskie, J.

At or about two o’clock on the morning of September 2d, 1934, the plaintiff in error, i. e., defendant below, and two other gangsters (all with criminal records) were perpetrating a robbery in a house of prostitution at 243 Sycamore street, Camden, New Jersey. At the point of guns or revolvers, or both, all those present were held up and made to turn over whatever moneys they had. At about the same time, William Peitz and Joseph Leonhardt, detectives of the police force of Camden, were patroling in what is called a police radio car the…