Legal Opinion

People v. Scanlon

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 5, 1909PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal by the defendants, John Scanlon and another, from a judgment of the. County Court of Delaware county, rendered on the loth day of April, 1908, convicting the defendants of the crime of manslaughter in the second degree, and also from an order made on the 14th day of April, 1908, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial.

1Opinion of the Court

Smith, P. J.:

Upon- June 23, 1907, one Jared Francisco was driving toward the village of Arkville in the town of Middletown in the county of Delaware. He was driving a single horse attached to a buggy in which he was riding. . Fie had with him a boy by the name of Harry Gordon. When within about one mile of- this village, the right wheel of the, buggy collapsed. Both Francisco an d the boy were thrown and the boy fell at. the feet o.f the horse. By reason of injuries, which lie received from the kicking of the horse he died upon the succeeding day.- At the time that this buggy wheel collapsed…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People v. LangleyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Luther v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1912
  2. Story v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1926
  3. Tift v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1916
  4. People v. TwineCriminal Court of the City of New York · 1983
  5. State v. GartlandSupreme Court of Missouri · 1924

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