STATE v. CORDASCO


2 N.J. 189 (1949)

66 A.2d 27

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENT, v. RALPH CORDASCO, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided May 9, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward R. McGlynn (Mr. Joseph Weintraub, on the brief) argued the cause for the appellant.

Mr. Duane E. Minard, Jr. (Mr. C. William Caruso, on the brief) argued the cause for the State.


The opinion of the court was delivered by WACHENFELD, J.

This is an appeal from a first-degree murder conviction returned without a recommendation for life imprisonment as allowed by statute, resulting in the death penalty.

The appellant, Ralph Cordasco, shot and killed his estranged wife, firing five bullets into her body at a close range, estimated by a ballistics expert to be within a few inches. The main facts are amply proved and corroborated and indeed...

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