People v. . Sutherland

It is undisputed that on the night of the 22d of March, 1897, the defendant, a young colored man about 19 years of age shot and killed one Sarah Wren in an apartment house in Brooklyn, where they lived. The deceased was the wife of another man, and she was at the time living with the defendant in meretricious relations. The only question in the case, upon the merits, is whether the evidence produced upon the trial was sufficient to establish the intent to kill, and the deliberation and premeditation essential to constitute the crime of murder in the first degree. 'The learned counsel for the…