State v. Overton
Supreme Court of New Jersey
1. It is no valid ground for a change of venue or for the adjournment of a trial for murder, that a statement had appeared in a newspaper to the effect that the prosecutor of the pleas had said the previous day in open court that he had no confidence in the jury returned to try another homicide case, and alleged to be the same “jury” (meaning the special panel) from which the trial jury was to be selected. On error to the Essex Oyer and Terminer.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Parker, J.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the first, degree. It appeared by the evidence that as the result of bastardy proceedings instituted on the complaint of Carrie B. Henderson, he had married the woman and after the birth of the child had killed the mother and her infant by tying them separately with a clothes line to a bed, around the body and throat, and causing death by. strangulation. The defence was insanity. ^ The entire case is sent up pursuant to section 136 of the Criminal Procedure act; and we *289take up the grounds oí…
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