People v. . Gillette
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered December 10, 1906, at an Extraordinary Trial Term for the county of Herkimer, upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered December 10, 1906, at an Extraordinary Trial Term for the county of Herkimer, upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion It was error to receive in evidence and to read to the jury the letters of the deceased which she had written to the defendant(Willett v. People, 27 Hun, 477; 92 N. Y. 29; People v. Green, 1 Park. Cr. Rep. 18; Wigmore on Ev. § 1073; People v. Smith, 172 N. Y. 232; People v.…
1Opinion of the CourtHiscock, J.
No controversy throws the shadow of any doubt or speculation around the primary fact that about six o’clock in the afternoon of July 11, 1906, while she was alone with the defendant, Grace Brown met an unnatural death and her body sank to the bottom of Big Moose lake. But the question which is bitterly disputed, and which is of such supreme importance to this defendant, is whether this tragedy was the result of suicidal drowning or of violence inflicted by his hand under such circumstances as constituted deliberate murder. The jury, after a long and arduous trial, have adopted the latter…
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