PEOPLE v. FERNANDEZ


301 N.Y. 302 (1950)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Raymond Martinez Fernandez and Martha Jule Beck, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 11, 1950


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John McKim Minton and Rudolph Stand for Raymond M. Fernandez, appellant.

Herbert E. Rosenberg, Cyril M. Rosenberg, Edward Norwalk and Eve J. Epstein for Martha J. Beck, appellant.

Frank A. Gulotta, District Attorney of Nassau County (Philip Huntington and Henry P. DeVine of counsel), for respondent.

DYE and FULD, JJ., concur with LEWIS, J.; DESMOND, J., concurs in separate opinion in which FROESSEL, J., concurs; CONWAY, J., dissents in opinion in which LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., concurs.


LEWIS, J.

On the night of March 1, 1949, the dead body of a woman — with bent head and flexed limbs tightly bound against the torso, and with a white scarf knotted twice around the neck — was exhumed from beneath the concrete floor of a private house on 149th Street in South Ozone Park, Queens County, New York. An autopsy disclosed a fractured larynx and two head wounds which penetrated the cranial...

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