People v. Brengard

On July 22, 1928, John Kennedy was shot and on July 13, 1932, he died. He was a uniformed officer attached to the police force of Nassau county and, while patrolling alone in a police car at midnight, he discovered an unoccupied automobile parked in a secluded rural lane. In the course of his investigation concerning this car he was shot by some person whom he never identified. On October 2, 1933, the defendant Brengard was jointly indicted with William French, “ each aiding and abetting the other,” for murder in the first degree. On a joint trial, French was convicted ,of murder in the…