People v. Cuozzo
New York Court of Appeals
I. The several confessions were each either untrue, impossible, unreliable, contradictory, discredited or unbelievable and must be rejected. II. The verdict is against the weight of evidence. {People v. Gashin, 259 N. Y. 434; People v. Crum, 272 N. Y. 348; People v. Weiss, 290 N. Y. 160; People v. Mummiani, 258 N. Y. 394.) III. The judgment of conviction should be reversed and a new trial ordered.
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I. The several confessions were each either untrue, impossible, unreliable, contradictory, discredited or unbelievable and must be rejected. II. The verdict is against the weight of evidence. {People v. Gashin, 259 N. Y. 434; People v. Crum, 272 N. Y. 348; People v. Weiss, 290 N. Y. 160; People v. Mummiani, 258 N. Y. 394.) III. The judgment of conviction should be reversed and a new trial ordered. (People v. Joyce, 233 N. Y. 61.) I. The defendant killed Lois Tryon after forming a decision to kill her and committed the act with deliberation and premeditation. {People v. Kennedy, 159 N. Y. 346;…
1Opinion of the Court
On April 6, 1939, Lois Tryon, a nineteen year old high school senior, left her home for an afternoon walk. She lived in a rural section of the town of York in Livingston County, and along the roads she traversed there were occasional farmhouses and barns. It was early spring in Central New York, the air was cold and the ground wet. Lois Tryon’s home was at the intersection of two roads, which ran northeast and southeast respectively, and these two roads with another road which ran north and south and which crossed the two roads just mentioned about a mile and a half from her home, made a…
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