O'Brien v. . the People

Tlie Plaintiff in error was convicted in tlie Court of General Sessions for the city and county of New York, of murder in the first degree, for killing Kate Smith, on the 20th June, 1866. On writ of error from the Supreme Court the conviction was affirmed, and judgment thereon was directed to be executed ; wherefore a writ of error was sued out from this Court, to the end that the case might he considered here.

It appears, from the evidence, that the prisoner had been in relations of criminal intimacy with the deceased, Kate Smith, for several months prior to the 20th June, the day of the…