State v. Fiore

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

This writ of error questions the legal propriety of proceedings which resulted in the conviction of the defendant of murder in the first degree. The indictment contains three counts, the first of which charges, in the words of the statute, that Maddalena Ciccone and the defendant did kill and murder Leonardo Ciccone. The second, that Maddalena Ciccone did kill and murder the decedent and that this defendant did procure, aid, abet and counsel her to commit the murder. The third, that the said Maddalena Ciecone, knowing the same to be a deadly…