People v. Mooney

At the November term of the district court of the third judicial district, held in and for the county of Oneida, A. D. 1881, the defendant was indicted for the crime of murder; and, upon a trial, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and thereupon judgment of death was pronounced against him. From that judgment the defendant has appealed to this court, and the case has been submitted upon briefs, without oral argument. There is no evidence or bill of exceptions in the record, nor is there any assignment of errors on file. We are therefore left to an examination of the record, viz., the…