People Ex Rel. Lemon v. Supreme Court

Cardozo, Ch. J.

The grand jury of Orange county indicted Lucy Earley on October 7, 1926, for the murder of her husband by poisoning his food. The effect of this indictment was to supersede an information, filed by the District Attorney with the Recorder of the city of New-burgh, charging the same crime. The minutes of the grand jury have been inspected by the defendant under an order of the court. Qne Wegley, an accomplice, gave testimony that the defendant had asked him for arsenic to enable her to kill her husband, and had received the poison from his hands. Physicians who had examined the…