People v. . Watson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Kings County Court rendered June 21, 1915, 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 comments of the prosecuting counsel in his summing up upon defendant’s failure to testify were in violation of his right and necessarily prejudicial to defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Kings County Court rendered June 21, 1915, 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 comments of the prosecuting counsel in his summing up upon defendant’s failure to testify were in violation of his right and necessarily prejudicial to defendant. (Davison v. State, 24 S. W. Rep. 414.) The evidence established beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant killed Elizabeth Watson from a deliberate and premeditated design to effect her death. (People v. Place, 157 N.…
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, J.:
The defendant has been convicted of murder in the first degree. The indictment was drawn without the care and consideration in its statements that a matter of such importance should receive. However, the motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute the crime of murder in the first degree was properly denied. It in substance charges that the defendant willfully, feloniously and of malice aforethought struck Elizabeth Watson with a knife on March 23, 1915, from the effects of which she died on March 26, 1915.
Elizabeth Watson was…
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