People v. . Buffom
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered February 27, 1914, at a Trial Term for the county of Cattaraugus, 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 statements of a person charged with crime are by no means conclusive, and undue weight should not be given them, for innocent men sometimes lie in order to divert suspicion from themselves.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered February 27, 1914, at a Trial Term for the county of Cattaraugus, 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 statements of a person charged with crime are by no means conclusive, and undue weight should not be given them, for innocent men sometimes lie in order to divert suspicion from themselves. (People v. White, 176 N. Y. 331; People v. Chapleau, 121 N. Y. 266; People v. Mondon, 103 N. Y. 211; People v. Giusto, 206 N. Y. 67; People v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, Ch. J.
On the 24th day of August, 1913, Willis Buffom, a farmer fifty-two years of age, died of arsenical poisoning at his home near Little Valley in the town of Mansfield, Cattaraugus county. I state the cause of death thus positively for the reason that counsel for the defendant in his opening address to the jury stated that the proof tended to show there was arsenical poisoning; and no serious attempt was made to dispute the evidence for the People to that effect. The defendant is charged by the indictment with having caused the death of Willis Buffom by means of arsenic…
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