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STATE v. BROWN

131 N.J. Super. 228 (1974)

329 A.2d 347

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. ROGER BROWN, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 25, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward Weisslitz, First Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant (Mr. Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Defender, attorney).

Mr. Richard Berg, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent (Mr. William F. Hyland, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Mr. George F. Kugler, Jr., former Attorney General of New Jersey, and Mr. Howard A. Cohen, Legal Assistant, on the brief).

Before Judges CARTON, SEIDMAN and DEMOS.

PER CURIAM.

Defendant was indicted for the murder of one Johnson J. Robins. After a trial to a jury, he was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and his subsequent motion for a new trial was denied. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

On this appeal he asserts a number of grounds, the first of which is that the State failed to prove a prima facie case of murder in the first degree and that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence.

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