People ex rel. Van Orden v. Martin

This relator was indicted by a Grand Jury of

the County of Kings for first degree murder. The indictment charged that the murder was committed as follows: “ The defendant on September 20, 1928, in the County of Kings, wilfully, feloniously and of malice aforethought, shot and killed Samuel Guthert with a revolver, said death occurring on September 21, 1928.” Upon this indictment on March 5, 1929, he pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced March 15, 1929, for a term of from twenty years to life to which an additional term of from five to ten years was added pursuant to…