People v. Druse
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant Roxalana Druse from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme'Court in the Fourth Department of July 1, 1886, affirming a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Herkimer County of October 6, 1885, convicting her of murder in the first degree. The facts fully appear in the opinions of the General Term and the Court of Appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
The following is the opinion rendered by the General Term.
Hardin, P. J.
From the evidence given upon the trial it appears that on the 18th day of December, 1884, the appellant and William Druse, at the town of Warren, were living together as husband and wife, and that their family at that time consisted of their daughter, Mary Druse, aged some nineteen years, and their son, George Druse, who was about ten years old, and Frank Gates, a nephew.
While the husband and wife were at the breakfast table on that day an altercation arose, and after the deceased had received a shot from a pistol in the…
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