People v. Lyons
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the City and County of New York entered upon a verdict of a jury convicting defendant of murder in- the first degree. The indictment charged in the ordinary form that the defendant on July 5, 1887, did willfully, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought, make an assault upon one Joseph Quinn by shooting the said Quinn and causing the death of said Quinn.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the City and County of New York entered upon a verdict of a jury convicting defendant of murder in- the first degree. The indictment charged in the ordinary form that the defendant on July 5, 1887, did willfully, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought, make an assault upon one Joseph Quinn by shooting the said Quinn and causing the death of said Quinn. The testimony in the case, which was of the most conflicting character, is sufficiently noticed in the opinion of the Court of Appeals. I. There was no evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtPeckham, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the prisoner of murder in the first degree, in the Court of General Sessions for the county of Hew York. The prisoner was indicted for the murder of one Quinn in August, 1887, in the county of Hew York. He was tried in the General Sessions before the recorder, and having been duly convicted and sentenced to death, his counsel appealed from such judgment to this court, under the act permitting such appeal, known as chapter 493 of the Laws of 1887.
It is claimed on the part of the defendant that the evidence does not show the defendant guilty of…
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