Pierson v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, to review judgment affirming a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the county of Livingston, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 18 Hun, 239.) The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
William Pierson, the prisoner, was indicted in Livingston county for murder, in causing the death by poison of Learnan B. Witliey, in February,. 1877. He was tried at the Oyer and Terminer of that county in February, 1878, and was convicted and sentenced to bo liung. His conviction was affirmed at the General Term of the Supreme Court. He has now brought his case into this court by writ of error, and seeks to have his conviction reversed for several errors which have been ably presented for our consideration by his counsel.
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