People v. . Strait
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment, convicting defendeant of murder in the first degree, "and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
At a term of the court of oyer and terminer held in the county of Chemung in November, lo94, the defendant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree. It was charged that on the 16th day of November, 1894, at the city of Elmira, in that county, he deliberately and with premeditation shot and killed his wife, Joan H. Strait. In the following May he was tried, and a verdict of guilty was rendered. From the judgment of conviction entered on that verdict he appealed to this court, where it was reversed, and a new trial granted. The reversal was upon the ground that the court erred…
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