Walsh v. . People of the State of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department to review a judgment entered upon an order made December 12, 1881, which affirmed a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Kings, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The exception to receiving the photograph of the deceased in evidence was well taken.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department to review a judgment entered upon an order made December 12, 1881, which affirmed a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Kings, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The exception to receiving the photograph of the deceased in evidence was well taken. (People v. Cowley, 11 W’kly Dig. 516; Cozzens v. Higgins, 1 Abb. Ct. App. Dig. 453; 3 Keyes, 206; Udderzock's Case, 76 Penn.…
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Ch. J.
The plaintiff in error was convicted at a court of Oyer and Terminer, in Kings county, of the murder of one Barbara G-ronenthal, by stabbing with a knife, on the evening of January 3, 1881. The deceased was sixteen years of age, and at the time of her death was engaged in domestic service in Brooklyn. The prisoner was about nineteen years of age, and worked in a paint shop in that city. The deceased, a few minutes before the homicide, was seen standing in an area, under the steps of the house where she was employed, engaged in conversation with a man, and soon thereafter she…
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