State v. Loray

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schettino, J.

This is a felony-murder case. Appellant, Eobert Loray, and two others, Stanley Wilson and George Cooper, were convicted of a first degree murder with a recommendation of life imprisonment. They were tried in one trial on two separate indictments; one, for felony (robbery) murder, N. J. S. 2A:113-1; the second, for robbery, N. J. S. 2A: 141-1, of the same victim in the same incident. The jury did not consider the robbery indictment, the court having instructed such to be unnecessary if guilt was found on the murder charge. Loray appeals as…