People v. . Sullivan
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court rendered at a Trial Term for the county of Schoharie, October 25, 1901, upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Dissent
O’Brien, J. (dissenting) :
The defendant has been convicted of murder in the first degree upon an indictment, charging him with having, on the 27th day of ¡November, 1900, shot and killed Matthew Wilson, a policeman, with the deliberate and premeditated design to effect his death.
About 2 o’clock on the morning of the day above named, Wilson was found dead upon the stone steps of a store in the village of Cobleskill, the body resting upon a platform or stoop in front of the store, which was reached by two stone steps. He was evidently standing upon the platform when killed, as the body was…
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