State v. Hauptmann

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder by the grand jury of Hunterdon county, was tried in that county and convicted of murder in the first degree without recommendation of life imprisonment, and brings this writ of error.

The victim of the alleged murder was Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., a child less than two years old, on March 1st, 1932, the date laid in the indictment. On that evening, according to the testimony, the child was put to bed about eight o’clock, and was left asleep in the house of his parents at East Amwell in the county…