People v. Robinson
Court Of Oyer And Terminer New York
The prisoner had been indicted for the murder of Timothy Lanagan by poison, and pleaded not guilty. The cause was brought to trial at the Oyer and Terminer held at Troy in the county of Rensselaer, in May, 1854. The facts of the case, as proved on the trial, are sufficiently stated in the charge to the jury*
1Opinion of the Court
At the close of the trial the following charge was delivered to the jury by the presiding judge:
Gentlemen of the Jury: The scene which during the week has occupied your attention with such painful interest, is at length drawing to a close. Happily, it is rare that the citizen in the discharge of the duties which he owes to the government under which he lives, is called upon to act under responsibilities like those which devolve upon you. It is but once, perhaps, in the course of a man’s life, that he is called upon to decide the fate for life or death, of a fellow being, when, in the…
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