People v. . Taylor

Judgment of death ha,s been pronounced upon the defendant, William G. Taylor, a convict in the state prison at Auburn, for killing Solomon Johnson, a fellow eonviot, on September 20, 1892. The felonious act was executed with great deliberation, and had, evidently, been long premeditated. The method of it accomplishment was planned with great cunning and forethought, and every element, apparently, existed which the law requires to be present in order to establish this most atrocious crime. Counsel, assigned by the court to defend the prisoner, have discharged that most delicate and responsible…