State v. Favorito

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

John Pavorito, the plaintiff in error (hereinafter called the defendant), was convicted in the Bergen County Court of Oyer and Terminer of murder in the first degree without any recommendation of life imprisonment, on an indictment for the murder of Emil Viborny, and sentence of death was imposed.

The defendant brings up the entire record and specifies causes for reversal and also assigns error on exceptions.

The state’s proof was to the effect that the defendant, accompanied by Charles Wiese and William Crum, drove to the gasoline station…