Ernest Ingenito v. The State of New Jersey

The appellant is serving a life sentence in the New Jersey State Prison following his conviction in 1951 of murder in the first degree in a court of that state for a homicide committed in 1950. He does not here attack that conviction. In 1956 he was convicted upon his pleas of non vult of murder in the first degree for four other homicides also committed in 1950. Upon each of these convictions he was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Contending that in the case of the last four convictions he was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial the appellant filed a motion…