# State v. Mount

> Supreme Court of New Jersey · June 17, 1959 · 30 N.J. 195

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9703879

## Case

- **Full name:** The State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. James Alfred Mount, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of New Jersey
- **Decided:** June 17, 1959
- **Citations:** 30 N.J. 195; 152 A.2d 343; 1959 N.J. LEXIS 169
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Proctor
- **Judges:** Jacobs, Burling, Proctor
- **Cited by:** 35 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that because juries bear sole “responsibility in passing on the issue of life or death,” juries are obligated to confront that issue without consideration of the possibility of appeal

## Opinion text

Proctor, J. (concurring).
I vote to reverse and in doing so I concur in the opinion of the majority with the exception of that part which deals with the admission or exclusion *225 of testimony relating to defendant’s background, and in that respect I agree with the views expressed by Mr. Justice Burling in his concurring opinion.
Burling, Proctor and Hall, JJ., concurring in result.
For reversal — Chief Justice Weintraub, and Justices Burling, Jacobs, Erancis, Proctor, Hall and Schettino — 7.
For affirmance — None.

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