People v. . Koenig
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the county of Hew York, rendered July 22, 1904, 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. The evidence in the case is insufficient to sustain the judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the county of Hew York, rendered July 22, 1904, 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. The evidence in the case is insufficient to sustain the judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree. (People v. Mangano, 29 Hun, 259; People v. Barberi, 149 N. Y. 256.) Whether' there was opportunity for deliberation and premeditation in the eye of the law was a question of fact to be determined by the jury from all the facts and…
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, Ch. J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first dégree in having caused the death of one Mary Kaufmann, on the third day of May (Tuesday), 1904. At the time of the homicide the defendant and the deceased were living together adulterously, the deceased having abandoned her husband to live with the defendant about four months previously. It is very clear that the deceased, at this time, wras substantially plying the trade of a common prostitute. The parties were living in a flat which consisted of four rooms; in front, on the street, a sitting room; back of that a…
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