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MARCUS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 6505, 6508.

86 F.2d 854 (1936)

MARCUS et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 9, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Wilson and Albert Lyman, both of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Leslie C. Garnett and Irvin Goldstein, both of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, GRONER, and STEPHENS, Associate Justices.

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

An appeal from a conviction and sentence in a first degree murder case.

The appellants Willett Marcus and John Homer Cummings were convicted of murder in the first degree upon an indictment charging that on January 4, 1935, in the District of Columbia they deliberately and with premeditated malice, while perpetrating, or attempting to perpetrate, the offense of robbery, did shoot and kill one Joseph R. Wushnak. The defendants pleaded...

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