Legal Opinion
Yates v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 5, 1865PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff in error was convicted at a Court of Oyer and Terminer (Mr. Justice BARNARD presiding), held for the county of Kings, at the city hall of the city of Brooklyn, on the 24th day of January, 1865, of the crime of murder in the first degree, in killing one Charles Curran. The judgment was removed into the Supreme Court by writ of error, where it was affirmed at the General Term of the second district. From this judgment the prisoner brought a writ of error to this court.
On the evening of the 1st of October, 1864, the prisoner was assisting Mary Ann Butler to remove her furniture…
2Cited by15 opinions
- Pettibone v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- State v. GreenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- Croom v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1890
- People v. ThompsonMichigan Supreme Court · 1899
- Holmes v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1926
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