State v. Laster

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Passaic Oyer, and the judgment upon that verdict is here for review.

Many grounds are alleged for reversal, but only a few of them are of sufficient importance to require notice.

At the time of the prisoner’s arrest there were found upon his person a revolver, a rope, a bottle, with some liquid in it, and some pawn tickets. At the trial all these were fully identified, by Officers Gault and Sauter, and all were offered in evidence by the state and admitted by the court. It…