People v. . Schuyler
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant John M. Schuyler from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department entered upon an order made January 11, 1887, which affirmed the judgment of a Court of Oyer and Terminer of Otsego County, entered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree, the charge being that he had on July 2, 1885, at the town of Monis, in Otsego County, with a deliberate and premeditated design to…
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Appeal by defendant John M. Schuyler from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department entered upon an order made January 11, 1887, which affirmed the judgment of a Court of Oyer and Terminer of Otsego County, entered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree, the charge being that he had on July 2, 1885, at the town of Monis, in Otsego County, with a deliberate and premeditated design to effect her death, killed his daughter Amy Schuyler by hurling her against a wooden block, thereby crushing in a portion of…
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The able and satisfactory opinion pronounced in the court below, renders it unnecessary that much should be written now. A brief presentation of our views will be sufficient to justify the conclusion we have reached.
The killing by the defendant of his child was, upon the trial, undisputed, and his sole defense was insanity. The crime was committed on the second day of July, 1885, and the defendant was then twenty-seven years old. It does not appear that before…
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