People v. . Furlong
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions' of the Peace in the county of New York, rendered January 30, 1905, 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. The evidence of conversations between the witness Flint and the defendant was incompetent as compelling the latter to he a witness against himself. (People v. Kemmler, 119 N. Y. 580; Const.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions' of the Peace in the county of New York, rendered January 30, 1905, 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. The evidence of conversations between the witness Flint and the defendant was incompetent as compelling the latter to he a witness against himself. (People v. Kemmler, 119 N. Y. 580; Const. N. Y. art. 1, § 6; People v. Mondon, 103 N. Y. 221.) The admission of such conversation as bearing upon defendant’s mental condition at the…
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, J.:
The defendant has been convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree in having killed Margaret Keeler. The brief filed in the "defendant’s behalf on the appeal to this court commences with the following statement: “ There is no dispute as to the facts and circumstances of the homicide. They would justify the conclusion that the homicide was either a brutal murder, or the act of a lunatic.”
On the 28th day of November, 1904, Margaret Keeler lived with her husband and two children in one of three apartments on the second floor of No. 82 East 115th street in the city of New York.…
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