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STATE v. JOHNSON

43 N.J. 572 (1965)

206 A.2d 737

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENT, v. SYLVESTER JOHNSON AND STANLEY CASSIDY, APPELLANTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided January 19, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. M. Gene Haeberle argued the cause for appellants (Messrs. Curtis R. Reitz and Stanford Shmukler, both of the Pennsylvania Bar, and Mr. M. Gene Haeberle, on the brief).

Mr. Norman Heine, Camden County Prosecutor, argued the cause for respondent.

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

The defendants, Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, together with Wayne Godfrey, were tried in January 1959 for felony murder. The jury found them guilty of murder in the first degree without recommendation of life imprisonment, and the court sentenced them to death. This court affirmed the convictions, State v. Johnson, 31 N.J. 489 (1960), and a number of post-conviction...

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