State v. Birbiglia
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans: Joshua G. Baker, Judge. Felix John Birbiglia and Charles Jones Zalenka were convicted of murder, and appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvostx, J.
The two accused, Felix' Birbiglia and Charles Zalenka, murdered a young woman at a lonely spot on the outskirts of this city after nightfall while they and she were joy riding in an automobile. They shot her with a pisiol, and beat her on the head with it, and threw her body down an embankment into soft mud, thinking that it would sink and disappear.- Their motive was robbery of valuable jewelry she usually wore. They had planned the crime before starting out on the ride. A third young man, named Burns, was driving the automobile. He was a cousin and friend of Zalenka, Jrat may have been…
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