Nye v. People

Campbell, J.:

Nye was charged with the murder of Robert Molyneaux, and was convicted of murder in the first degree. Many questions arose on the trial, but the objections urged in this court are confined to such as bear on the quality of the offense as murder or manslaughter.

The homicide occurred in a sudden affray. Nye and his *17co-defendant, Betts, were playing cards with an elderly naan named Chambers when Molyneaux interfered in a somewhat offensive way on a claim, according to some of testimony, that they were imposing on, or likely to ill-treat the old man. There was nothing to indicate…