People v. Hess
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, George W. Hess, from a judgment of the Court of Sessions of Greene county, rendered on the 12th day of December, 1893, upon the verdict of a jury convicting the defendant of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree upon an indictment for murder in the second degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
The defendant was charged with shooting with a revolver one Ilezekiah Bedell on the 16th day of October, 1892, at the hotel of the defendant in West Coxsackie. Bedell died the same day from the effect of the wound. On the trial the defendant, in substance, admitted that he fired the shot, but he claimed that he did it in self-defense, and that was the main issue at the trial. The defendant claimed that he had reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of Bedell to do him great personal injury, and that there was imminent danger of such design being accomplished. (Penal…
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- The People v. . CrowleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
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