La Beau v. People
New York Supreme Court
The prisoner was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the following indictment: 8t. Lawrence county, ss: The jurors of the people of the State of New York, in and for the body of the county of St. Lawrence, to wit: Harlow Godard, Schuyler Briggs, William Furness, Adam Pike, Lewis Bartholomew, John Hay, H. F. Taylor, Isaac Sheldon, Joseph B. Ellsworth, Charles J. Gillett, Joseph Frith, Andrew Dalzell, George Woodbridge, James F. Brownell, George! Forsythe, Sylvanus Ellis,…
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The prisoner was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the following indictment: 8t. Lawrence county, ss: The jurors of the people of the State of New York, in and for the body of the county of St. Lawrence, to wit: Harlow Godard, Schuyler Briggs, William Furness, Adam Pike, Lewis Bartholomew, John Hay, H. F. Taylor, Isaac Sheldon, Joseph B. Ellsworth, Charles J. Gillett, Joseph Frith, Andrew Dalzell, George Woodbridge, James F. Brownell, George! Forsythe, Sylvanus Ellis, Charles Galloway, Thomas Stocker, good and lawful men of said county, now here sworn and charged to inquire for the said…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Bockes, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted for administering, or causing and procuring to be administered, to one Julius Denny, a deadly poison, with intent to kill. He was convicted and sentenced at the St. Lawrence Oyer, February, 1865.
The indictment charged an offense under section thirty-seven of article two, title two, chapter one, part four of the Revised Statutes (2 R. S. 666, § 37), which provides that “ every person who shall be convicted of having ¡administered, or of having caused and procured to be administered, any poison to any other human being, with intent to…
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