People v. Schmidt
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered February 11, 1914, at a Trial Term for the county of New York upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. This court has never failed to set aside a verdict of murder in the first degree where it appeared that injustice has been done to a defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered February 11, 1914, at a Trial Term for the county of New York upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. This court has never failed to set aside a verdict of murder in the first degree where it appeared that injustice has been done to a defendant. (People v. Corey, 157 N. Y. 332; People v. Driscoll, 107 N. Y. 414; People v. Lyons, 110 N. Y. 618; People v. Filipelli, 173 N. Y. 509; Barrett v. Third Ave. R. R. Co., 45 N. Y. 628; People v.…
1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.
In September, 1913, the dismembered body of Anna Aumuller was found in the Hudson river. Suspicion pointed to the defendant. He was arrested, and confessed that he had killed the woman by cutting her . throat with a knife. He repeated this confession again and again. He attempted, however, to escape the penalty for murder by the plea that he was insane. He told the physicians who examined him that he had heard •the voice of Glod calling upon him to kill the woman as a sacrifice and atonement. He confessed to a life of unspeakable excesses and hideous crimes, broken, he said, by spells of…
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