People v. . Spohr

Haight, J.:

On the 1st day of April, 1911, the defendant with a loaded revolver shot and killed one Pose O’Toole, a servant girl, at the home of her sister, Mary Campbell, in the village of White Plains. The defendant was a musician; enlisted in the United States army, and attached to the- b'and at Port Slocum. He was forty-five years of age and had been previously married in March, 1885. The evidence tends to show- that he commenced keeping the company of Pose O’Toole in January, 1911; that they became intimate and were often together until March following, .at which time she refused to…