People v. . Rodawald
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered June 20, 1903, at a Trial Term for the county of Cattaraugus, 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.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered June 20, 1903, at a Trial Term for the county of Cattaraugus, 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 court erred in permitting the witness Greenberg to testify to a pretended gift of the posts in question to Mrs. Keating, and in refusing to strike out this evidence after it had affirmatively appeared that he neither owned the posts nor had any authority from the owner to give them away. (People v. Corey, 148 N. Y. 476; Anderson v. R.,…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The homicide which is the subject of this appeal was committed in April, 1903. The defendant was indicted in May, convicted in June and appealed to this court in July of the same year. The appeal was argued in January, 1904.
In the outskirts of the village of West Salamanca, Cattaraugus county, there is a public highway known as South street,' running from Broad street on the south bank of the Allegheny river southerly to the Pennsylvania railroad, a distance of 1,070 feet. On that street the homicide in question occurred and on that street the deceased, the accused and all the witnesses of…
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