In Re Tremper

Petition was filed in this court by the above-named petitioners, Tremper, Duncan and Bennett, setting forth that they are imprisoned in the New Jersey State Prison under and by virtue of sentences imposed on July 17th, 1934, by the Ocean County Court of Oyer and Terminer, for the crime of murder; further alleging the occurrence of certain circumstances during the course of their trial, which they contend were legally erroneous and were of such nature, character and effect as to deprive the court of jurisdiction to impose any sentence whatever; further contending that the sentences were and…