People v. Williams
New York Court of Appeals
I. Defendant was deprived of his right to a fair trial by the concealment of the names of witnesses by the District Attorney on the selection of the jury. (People v. Hughes, 137 N. Y. 29; People v. Grieco, 266 N. Y. 48; The People v. Casey, 96 N. Y. 115; People v. McQuade, 110 N. Y. 284; People v. Hull, 251 App. Div. 40; Gulf & Railway Co. v. Shane, 157 II.
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I. Defendant was deprived of his right to a fair trial by the concealment of the names of witnesses by the District Attorney on the selection of the jury. (People v. Hughes, 137 N. Y. 29; People v. Grieco, 266 N. Y. 48; The People v. Casey, 96 N. Y. 115; People v. McQuade, 110 N. Y. 284; People v. Hull, 251 App. Div. 40; Gulf & Railway Co. v. Shane, 157 II. S. 348; Hildreth v. City of Troy, 101 N. Y. 234; Searle v. Romani Catholic Bishop, 203 Mass. 493; McHugh v. Jones, 258 App. Div. Ill, 283 N. Y. 534; People v. Rosen, 251 App. Div. 584, 275 N. Y. 627.) II. Defendant’s guilt was not proven…
1Opinion of the CourtLottghbaN, J.
This defendant, a colored man thirty-one years old, has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs. Aslee Edmond, a colored woman of like age. Early on the morning of December 6,1942, her body was found upon a landing underneath a stairway leading upward from the first floor of a tenement house in the Harlem district of the city of New York. An autopsy exposed fifteen scattered stab wounds, one of which went through her heart and caused death. Her clothing was disarranged, hut no trace of semen was discovered.
Neither Mrs. Edmond nor the defendant lived in the premises where her body was…
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