People v. . Schmidt
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered at a Trial Term for the county of Columbia June 5,' 1899, upon a verdict convicting the defendant of murder in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCullen, J.
The appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree in having killed William Hilderbrandt at the town of Claverack, in the county of Columbia,, on September 12, 1893. The defendant, a man of some fifty years of age a,t the time of the crime, was a native of Polish Prussia, coming to- this country about the year 1882, and from that time he had worked here as a mason or plasterer and at farm labor. His knowledge of English was imperfect, and he seems to ha-ve been able to understand the language better than he could speak it. For some years previous to 1891, he had been engaged working on…
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