People v. Robinson
New York Supreme Court
This was a certiorari to the Rensselaer Oyer and Terminer, in which court the prisoner had been convicted before Harris. Justice and the Justices of the Sessions, in May, 1854, of the murder of Timothy Lanagan, by poisoning.
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This was a certiorari to the Rensselaer Oyer and Terminer, in which court the prisoner had been convicted before Harris. Justice and the Justices of the Sessions, in May, 1854, of the murder of Timothy Lanagan, by poisoning. The indictment was as follows: At a.court of Oyer and Terminer held at the Court House in the city of Troy, in and for the county of Rensselaer, on the third Monday of February, in the year of our Lord one thous- and eight hundred and fifty-four, before the Honorable Malbone Watson, one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the state of New York, together with Nathan…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Parker, P. J.
In charging the jury, the learned judge made use of the following expression. “ It is my duty to say to you, gentlemen, that if she (the prisoner) was intoxicated to such an extent that she was unconscious of what she was doing, still the law holds her responsible for her act.” And afterwards in another portion of the charge, the judge said, “ though the prisoner may have been excited by strong drink at the time of the alleged offence, even to such an extent as not to know what she was doing, she must answer for the consequences; her self-inflicted insanity must not…
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