People v. . Sullivan
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court rendered at a Trial Term for the county of Schoharie, October 25, 1901, 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.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
I have been constrained to reach a different conclusion from that held by Judge O’Brien. I agree with him that as the guilt of the defendant was submitted to' the jury on both claims of the People, first, that the deceased was killed with a deliberate and premeditated design to effect his death, and, second, that he was killed by the defendant while the latter was engaged in the perpetration of a felony or an attempt to commit one, if as to either claim the evidence was insufficient to justify the submission of the question to the jury the conviction must be reversed, since it…
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