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STATE v. PARIS

8 N.J. Super. 383 (1949)

72 A.2d 558

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, v. EDITH LILLIAN PARIS, DEFENDANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County Court Law Division.

Decided December 13, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the State, Mr. Walter G. Winne, Prosecutor of the Pleas.

For the defendant, Mr. William V. Breslin.

DEL MAR, J.C.C.

The defendant has been indicted for murder. The indictment is in the usual form. To this she has offered to plead "Non vult to murder in the second degree." Quere — does this plea, if accepted, prevent the court from imposing a life sentence?

At common law there were no degrees of murder. In this State murder was first defined by degrees in P.L. 1838, p. 182, by which statute three degrees were established and which...

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