Northrup v. People
New York Court of Appeals
Writ oe Error to the Supreme Court, sitting in the second district, where a conviction of the plaintiff in error, in the Oyer and Terminer of Westchester county, of the offence of administering poison to his wife, with intent to kill, had been affirmed, on certiorari.
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Writ oe Error to the Supreme Court, sitting in the second district, where a conviction of the plaintiff in error, in the Oyer and Terminer of Westchester county, of the offence of administering poison to his wife, with intent to kill, had been affirmed, on certiorari. (Reported below, 50 Barb. 147.) Calvin M. Northrup, the plaintiff in error, was indicted, in Westchester county, in September 1866, for the offence of administering poison to Eliza W. Northrup, his wife, with intent to kill. In December following, a court of oyer and terminer convened at the court-house in White Plains, in said…
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
By the laws of 1813 (vol. 2, p. 142, § 4), White Plains and Bedford were fixed as the places where the court of common pleas should be held in the county of Westchester; and the circuit courts and courts of oyer and terminer were required, by a subsequent statute, to be held at the same places: § 17 of the Code repeals the statute last referred to, and substitutes another mode of appointment. By § 22, the judges of the supreme court of each district are required to appoint the times and places for holding courts within their respective districts: § 24 provides, however, that the places…
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