Legal Opinion
People v. Adams
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 22, 1970PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJasen, J.
This .appeal involves several issues raised by an insanity defense to the charge of murder in the first degree.
*133On March 20, 1965, the defendant fed butterscotch pudding heavily laced with sleeping pills to her husband. When he had fallen asleep, she bludgeoned him to death with a hammer and stabbed him repeatedly with a kitchen knife. Following the crime, she ingested a quantity of sleeping pills, and called her cousin to say that she had killed her husband and was about to take more pills. The police officers who responded to the cousin’s call prevented .the defendant from consuming any more…
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