State v. Genz
Supreme Court of New Jersey
The following - case was certified to this court by the Oyer and Terminer of the county of Hudson, viz.: • Paul Genz was indicted by the grand inquest of the county of Hudson, summoned for the September Term, A. D. 1894, of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery of said county, for the alleged murder of Clara Arnim, on the 28th day of August, a. d. 1894, at- the city of Hoboken, in said county.
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The following - case was certified to this court by the Oyer and Terminer of the county of Hudson, viz.: • Paul Genz was indicted by the grand inquest of the county of Hudson, summoned for the September Term, A. D. 1894, of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery of said county, for the alleged murder of Clara Arnim, on the 28th day of August, a. d. 1894, at- the city of Hoboken, in said county. Being arraigned on said indictment,, at said term, the prisoner pleaded guilty. The court refused to receive such plea, but disregarded the same and ordered a plea of not guilty to be…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
The certificate prefacing this opinion presents for our consideration but a single inquiry, and that is whether a defendant in an indictment for murder has an inalienable right to plead guilty to the charge. It is the supplement to the Crimes act, approved March 1st, 1893, that has given rise to the question. By the sixty-eighth Section of the act as it stands in - the Revision, the crime of murder is defined and is distributed into two classes — that is, murder of the first and second degree — and to this adjustment *461is added the…
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