People v. . Burgess
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment, convicting defendant of murder in first degree.
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
Henry V. Whitlock was a farmer, fifty-eight years of age, living in the town of Victory, in the county of Cayuga, with his wife, Catharine, who was about thirty-seven years of age. The defendant, a strong, powerful man, of about the same age of Mrs. Whitlock, was in their employ as a hired man, working upon the farm. He lived with them, eating at the same table, and sleeping in a room upstairs, while Whitlock and his wife occupied a bedroom on the ground floor. The residence was upon the west side of a road running north and south, and the barns were upon the east side of the roadway. There…
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