The People v. . Conroy
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department of June 16, 1884, reversing a judgment of conviction of the Court of General Sessions of Mew York city of December 6, 1883, Hon. Rufus B. Cowing presiding, convicting defendant William Conroy of the crime of murder in the first degree.
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Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department of June 16, 1884, reversing a judgment of conviction of the Court of General Sessions of Mew York city of December 6, 1883, Hon. Rufus B. Cowing presiding, convicting defendant William Conroy of the crime of murder in the first degree. The facts will be found in the opinions of the General Term, ante, p. 247. The order of the General Term was in the following form: “ The above entitled criminal action having been brought on for argument upon the return made by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruger, Ch. J.
The defendant was indicted and convicted in the Court of General Sessions of Mew York of the crime of murder in the first degree, for having killed one Peter Keenan on the night of November 3, 1883, by means of a pistol. The killing was not denied, but it was urged in defense that there was an absence of that deliberation and premeditation essential to the commission of the crime charged, and that the defendant was insane at the time of its perpetration. The General Term reversed the conviction upon the ground that the evidence was insufficient to establish such deliberation and…
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