People v. Childs
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Alfred Childs, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city a,nd county of Hew York in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 29th day of Hay, 1902, convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the second degree, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office denying the defendant’s motion for a hew trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The People showed and the defendant, a witness in his own behalf, admitted that on the 2d day of April, 1902, shortly after one o’clock in the afternoon, the defendant shot and killed Patrick J. Malone with a pistol in front of the Army Building at the corner of Moore and Pearl streets, in the city of Hew York. The defendant claimed that he did the shooting in self-defense. He was employed by the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society as a “ runner ” to solicit boarders and lodgers for the Hew Seamen’s Home, 52 Market street, Hew York city. The decedent was employed as a…
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