Legal Opinion
People v. O'Hara
New York County Courts
Decided January 5, 1967Published
1Opinion of the CourtRobert J. Trainor, J.
The defendant, John O’Hara, together with John Simmons and Thomas Stack, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Westchester County on December 12, 1947, for murder in the first degree, allegedly committed in the City of Yonkers, New York, on December 1,1947.
*294On November 19, 1948, after a trial before Honorable Elbert T. Gallagher and a jury, a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree (felony murder) was returned against all three defendants, with the jury’s recommendation that the defendants be imprisoned in a State prison for the term of their natural lives, and, on December 13,1948 this…
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- Crooker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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