People v. Green
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
The prisoner was tried at the Rensselaer oyer and terminer, in July, 1845, before Parker, C. Judge, and others, for the murder of his wife by poisoning with arsenic. On the trial the district attorney, after laying a proper foundation, offered to give in evidence the dying declarations of the deceased as to. the cause of death.
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The prisoner was tried at the Rensselaer oyer and terminer, in July, 1845, before Parker, C. Judge, and others, for the murder of his wife by poisoning with arsenic. On the trial the district attorney, after laying a proper foundation, offered to give in evidence the dying declarations of the deceased as to. the cause of death. The counsel for the prisoner objected, that dying declarations could not be received where they came from the wife against the husband: but the court overruled the objection, and admitted the evidence. The prisoner having* been convicted, the case was reported to the…
1Opinion of the Court
*616The following General Rules were adopted on the 7th day of November, in this term.
Rule 103.
Criminal cases, and cases in which the people are the plaintiffs in interest, may be moved on behalf of the people out of their order on the calendar, on the morning of any day in the first week of the term; and they may also be moved on the morning of any other day in the term, provided the public prosecutor or the attorney for the plaintiff shall have given a notice of not less than four days of his intention to move on .the particular day.
Rule 104.
When a clerkship as a student at law has already been…
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