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JOHNSON v. YEAGER

38 N.J. 319 (1962)

184 A.2d 641

SYLVESTER JOHNSON, STANLEY CASSIDY AND WAYNE GODFREY, PETITIONERS-APPELLANTS, v. HOWARD YEAGER, PRINCIPAL KEEPER OF THE NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON, RESPONDENT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided October 1, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. M. Gene Haeberle argued the cause for petitioners-appellants (Mr. Curtis R. Reitz and Mr. Stanford Shmukler, of the Philadelphia bar, of counsel).

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

The opinion of the court was delivered

PER CURIAM.

Defendants were sentenced to death upon conviction of murder in the first degree. We affirmed the judgments. State v. Johnson, 31 N.J. 489 (1960).

There followed a series of post-conviction applications, one of which involved a claim that a juror, Mrs. Wheeler, had failed to reveal on voir dire that her husband...

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