State v. Cooper
Supreme Court of New Jersey
At the Morris General Quarter Sessions of the peace, of July term, 1880, two indictments were found against Samuel Cooper.
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At the Morris General Quarter Sessions of the peace, of July term, 1880, two indictments were found against Samuel Cooper. By the first he was indicted as principal, and Catherine Cooper, and John VanGiesen as accessaries, for arson, committed by burning the dwelling-house of Ralph Smith, in Hanover, in said county of Morris, on the 5th April, 1830. The second was an indictment for murder, in occasioning the death of one Joseph Hopper, burned up in the house of the said Ralph Smith, on the 5th of April 1830. At the September term of the Morris Oyer and Terminer, 1830, the prisoner was tried…
1Opinion of the CourtDrake, J.
Ata Court of General Quarter Sessions of the peace, holden at Morristown, in and for the county of Morris, in the term of July, 1830, the grand jury presented an indictment against Samuel Cooper as principal, and two other persons, as accessaries, for the wilfully and maliciously burning of the dwelling-house of one Ralph Smith situate in the township of Hanover in the said county; and at the same term, presented another bill of indictment against the said Samuel Cooper, charging the crime of arson in burning the same dwelling-house of said Smith, “ and that one Joseph Hopper, in the said…
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