State v. Simmons

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

The defendants below (Harry Simmons, alias Indian, and Albert'Faria) were convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree (without recommendation), for the killing of Thomas Ennis, a police officer, while the defendants were perpetrating a robbery at the Hi-Hat Restaurant, in East Orange, and accordingly were sentenced to death.

The defendants did not bring up the entire record of the proceedings had upon the trial, but chose rather only to assign errors upon their bills of exceptions, and so we are here limited to an examination of…