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STATE v. BEARD

16 N.J. 50 (1954)

106 A.2d 265

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. JAMES BEARD, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 21, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Warren C. Douglas argued the cause for appellant (Mr. Elmer Bertman, attorney).

Mr. Robert Burk Johnson, Assistant County Prosecutor, argued the cause for the State (Mr. Mitchell H. Cohen, County Prosecutor, attorney).

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

The body of the defendant's mother was found lying in high bushes about 25 feet from the edge of Hampton Road in Delaware Township on the morning of July 3, 1953. She was still alive but died shortly after being taken to Cooper Hospital, where emergency treatments were unsuccessfully attempted.

Death was caused by multiple fractures of the skull, multiple fractures of the mandible, subarachnoid hemorrhage...

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