State v. D'orio, 5.
Decision Date | 02 August 1946 |
Docket Number | No. 5.,5. |
Citation | 134 N.J.L. 378,48 A.2d 276 |
Parties | STATE v. D'ORIO et al. |
Court | New Jersey Supreme Court |
OPINION TEXT STARTS HERE
Error to Court of Quarter Sessions, Essex County.
Joseph D'Orio and Alphonse Carbone were convicted of assault and robbery, and they bring error.
Judgments reversed.
May term, 1946, before CASE, C. J., and HEHER and COLIE, JJ.
Duane E. Minard, Jr., Prosecutor of the Pleas, and C. William Caruso, Asst. Prosecutor, both Newark, for the State.
Anthony A. Calandra, of Newark, for plaintiff in error D'Orio.
George R. Sommer, of Newark, for plaintiff in error Carbone.
Plaintiffs in error were convicted on an indictment charging them with an assault and robbery and sentenced to the state prison for a minimum of ten years and a maximum of fifteen years at hard labor. Of the assignments of error and specifications of causes for reversal, all were abandoned in this court with two exceptions. Both go to the refusal of the trial court to charge the jury in accordance with written requests to charge properly presented. The precise language of the requests follows: ‘The members of the jury are instructed that the indictment in this case is not evidence against the accused and is not to be considered as evidence during your deliberations of the evidence in this case.’ and
During the charge to the jury the court said: ...
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