The People v. . Rogers
New York Court of Appeals
Writ op Error to the Supreme Court, sitting in the first district, brought by the district attorney pursuant to the statute of 1852 (ch. 82), to review a judgment of that court in favor of James Rogers, the present defendant in error.
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Writ op Error to the Supreme Court, sitting in the first district, brought by the district attorney pursuant to the statute of 1852 (ch. 82), to review a judgment of that court in favor of James Rogers, the present defendant in error. Rogers was indicted in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, of the city and county of New York, for the murder of John Swanston, in that city, on the 17th of October, 1857. The trial took place in that court, on the twelfth November of that year, before A. D. Russell, City Judge. It appeared that Swanston, the deceased, and his wife, were returning from…
1Opinion of the Court
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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] I do not perceive that there was any valid objection to the testimony of the witness Scott. The surgeon had testified that the injury of which the deceased died was an incised wound. The object of the…
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