Legal Opinion

People v. . Kane

New York Court of Appeals

Decided January 5, 1915PublishedCited by 76 opinions

. Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered June 24, 1914, at a Trial Term for the county of Kings, 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.

1Opinion of the Court

Willard Bartlett, Ch. J.:

On the afternoon of May 20th, 1914, at 35 Varick avenue in the borough of Brooklyn, the defendant inflicted two serious pistol-shot wounds on the body of Anna Klein, a young married woman about twenty-two years of age, who was then living with her grandmother at the house where the shooting occurred. Anna Klein was pregnant at the time. The evidence warranted the jury in finding, and their verdict shows they must have found, that the pistol-shot wounds inflicted by the defendant caused a miscarriage, the miscarriage caused septic peritonitis, and the septic…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Cox v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
  2. Daughdrill v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1896
  3. Downing v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901
  4. Kelley v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1876
  5. People v. CookMichigan Supreme Court · 1878

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3Cited by76 opinions

  1. People v. CableNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
  2. People v. KibbeNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
  3. People v. StewartNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
  4. Ferrara v. GalluchioNew York Court of Appeals · 1958
  5. State v. GordonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1955

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