People v. . Hampartjoomian

Vann, J.:

On the 31st of October, 1907, the defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree upon an indictment alleging that on the 22nd of July, 1907, in the borough of Manhattan, county of New York, he shot and killed Hovhannes Tavshanjian willfully, feloniously and of his malice aforethought. The jury deliberated but twenty-five minutes before they rendered their verdict. Judgment of death was pronounced on the fourth of November, 1907, and the appeal there from, although taken on the fifth of December in the same year, was not argued before us until the seventh of June,…