Linsday v. . People of the State of N.Y.
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department to review judgment, affirming judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the county of Onondaga, convicting plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department to review judgment, affirming judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the county of Onondaga, convicting plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 5 Huu, 104.) Plaintiff in error and one Bishop Yader were indicted for the murder of Francis A. Colvin, charged to have been committed on the 19th December, 1873. Plaintiff in error was tried separately. A body, identified as that of the alleged murdered man, was discovered in the Seneca river June 22d, 1874. The…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The document incorporated in the record, as and for a bill of exceptions, is evidently the" joint production of the official stenographer and a compositor in a printing and publishing office of a newspaper; one of the modern self-made “ bills of exceptions,” by which the labor of eliminating from the record all redundant and irrelevant matter and bringing to- light the legal propositions and exceptions, is transferred from the counsel to the court of review. The record contains much of utterly worthless and irrelevant matter, and many, if not a majority of the questions sought to be…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- The People v. . GonzalezNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
- People v. CostelloCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1845
- The People v. . DyleNew York Court of Appeals · 1860
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- People v. MiddletonNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Greenfield v. . People of the State of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
- People v. BergerNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
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