Lake v. People
New York Supreme Court
An indictment for the crime of znurder was found against the plaintiff in error in the Dutchess Oyer and Terminer in the following words: Dutchess County, ss: The jurors of the people of the state of New York* in and for the body of the county of Dutchess, upon their oaths and affirmations, do present that George Lake, late of the Town of La Grange, County of Dutchess, and State of New-York, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by…
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An indictment for the crime of znurder was found against the plaintiff in error in the Dutchess Oyer and Terminer in the following words: Dutchess County, ss: The jurors of the people of the state of New York* in and for the body of the county of Dutchess, upon their oaths and affirmations, do present that George Lake, late of the Town of La Grange, County of Dutchess, and State of New-York, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, on the seventh day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, with…
1Opinion of the Court
*555 By the Court,
Dean, J. —
The prisoner, on the seventh of June, 1853, at LaGrange, in Dutchess county, in the day time, killed his wife, or the woman with whom he cohabited, and their two infant children, these constituting his whole family. He then, with a sword and motions and language, standing at an upper window in his house, almost entirely naked, kept the people who had gathered around for the purpose of arresting him, from accomplishing their object, until he was shot. He was soon after the occurrence indicted for murder, and at the Dutchess Oyer and Terminer, in September last, tried…
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