Error v. Bessie Boyd In Error., 33.
Decision Date | 03 September 1948 |
Docket Number | No. 33.,33. |
Citation | 61 A.2d 235,137 N.J.L. 615 |
Parties | STATE of N.J., Defendant In Error, v. Bessie BOYD et al., Plaintiffs In Error. |
Court | New Jersey Supreme Court |
Error to Supreme Court.
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N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
Evidence of defendant's guilt of abortion was sufficient for the jury.
N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
A finding of guilt may rest upon indirect or circumstantial evidence if that evidence is in quality sufficient to generate in jurors' minds a belief and conviction of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Objection to testimony came too late after it had been given, and admission thereof was harmless error, in any event, in view of trial court's unobjected to ruling striking most of the testimony and the fact that the substance thereof was already in proof without objection.
N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
Truth of testimony was for jury.
N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
A charge on alibi which followed closely the language of the Court of Errors and Appeals in another case was proper.
N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
Charge that a conviction may be had on circumstantial evidence provided jury should first be satisfied that facts are sufficiently proved and that facts proved are explained or explainable only on hypothesis that accused is guilty and facts are not capable of being reconciled with hypothesis of innocence and that burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is on State and never shifts, which burden is met when jurors feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of truth of charge was a sufficient charge on subject of circumstantial evidence.
N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
Refusal of request to charge, the substance of which was covered by charge given, was not error.
N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
In light of charges given, refusal of request to charge that failure of codefendant to take stand should not reflect unfavorably on defendant was not error.
N.J.Err. & App., 1948.
Verdict of guilty must be clearly against weight of evidence to give rise to inference that it was result of mistake, passion, prejudice or partiality.
Harold Simandl, of Newark, for plaintiff in error.
Duane E. Minard, Jr., for defendant in error.
The judgment under review herein is affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the opinion delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Case in the Supreme Court, 137 N.J.L. 23, 57 A.2d 521.
For affirmance: The CHANCELLOR, Justices BODINE, DONGE...
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