People v. Daniels

Foote, C.

The defendant was tried for the murder of a woman named Sarah Indig, and convicted of the crime of manslaughter; from a judgment in the premises, and an order denying him a new trial, he has appealed.

The objection made by him to the introduction of evidence on the part of the people which showed him to have at one' time lived with the woman whom he was alleged to have slain in a house of ill-fame was well taken, as tending to prejudice the jury against him as an immoral character, and its admission would have been good ground for a new trial but for the fact that the defendant, as a…