State v. Marchand

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schettino, J.

Defendant was granted certification, 29 N. J. 510 (1959), to review an affirmance by the Appellate Division of a County Court’s conviction and sentence of defendant for the crime of burning a building other than a dwelling house. N. J. S. 2A :89-2.

Defendant contends that the trial court erred in permitting the State to put in evidence certain allegedly irrelevant testimony, in allowing the State to attack defendant’s credibility before defendant took the stand, and in admitting a certain exhibit. The State’s case rested entirely on…