Greenfield v. . People of the State of N.Y.
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, to review a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the county of Onondaga, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 23 Hun, 454.) The material facts appear in the opinion. The court erred in admitting the evidence as to blood-stains.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, to review a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the county of Onondaga, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 23 Hun, 454.) The material facts appear in the opinion. The court erred in admitting the evidence as to blood-stains. The prisoner was not legally bound to account for them and could not be held liable for them. In the absence of proof that he caused them they neither proved nor tended to prove his guilt.…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The writ of error in this case brings up for review a judgment upon the conviction of the prisoner for the crime of murder in the first degree, in killing his wife, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer held in the county of Onondaga, the place of trial having been changed to this county from the county of Oswego, where the offense was committed. There was no positive proof that the prisoner committed the offense, but the testimony established facts and circumstances which tended strongly to prove his guilt and called upon the jury to determine the weight which' should be given to the evidence…
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