People v. Smiler
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of Hew York, entered June 18, 1890, upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree.
1Opinion of the Court
*718The following is an extract from the opinion:
■ “ One ground of the defense asserted was the insanity of the prisoner. After it had been shown that he was subject to fits of epilepsy, and to what were claimed to have been delusions ; that his mother died of paralysis and softening of the brain; that he occasionally talked in a manner which the witnesses deemed irrational; and that his mother had epileptic fits during her life-time, and her death was described in the certificate of the health department as in consequence of the ■disease of pachy meningitis; after this general proof Dr. O’Brien…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People v. . McElvaineNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
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