State v. Loponio
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Essex County Oyer and Terminer. Loponio was indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree for shooting and killing a police officer, McGovern, at about ten p. si., on the streets of Newark. No one witnessed the shooting, and, apart from the letter next hereinafter mentioned, the evidence produced at the trial of Loponio was entirely circumstantial and quite short of convincing.
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On error to the Essex County Oyer and Terminer. Loponio was indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree for shooting and killing a police officer, McGovern, at about ten p. si., on the streets of Newark. No one witnessed the shooting, and, apart from the letter next hereinafter mentioned, the evidence produced at the trial of Loponio was entirely circumstantial and quite short of convincing. A witness, Rochefort, however, who was a fellow-prisoner with Loponio while the latter was awaiting trial, testified, over objection, that he acted as the scrivener of the tier where Loponio’s…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
White, J.
The necessary but fictitious assumption which 'charges everyone, in the conduct of his own actions and affairs, with a knowledge of the law even more complete than that in fact possessed by her ablest ministers, renders it equally necessary to an adequate administration of justice, that her officers, appointed and accredited for that purpose, shall be available for confidential consultation in order that they may supply, to the extent of their learning and ability, the actual deficiency in a suitor’s presumed knowledge of the law, as if they…
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