People v. . Poulin

WlLLARD BARTLETT, J.:

At about six o’clock on the morning of August 6th, 1911, Charles Leonard was shot to death at his residence in the hamlet of Brookview, near Castleton in Rensselaer county. Frederick Arthur Poulin was speedily indicted for the homicide and after a carefully conducted trial has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. According to the testimony of Frederick Arthur Poulin himself, testifying in his own behalf, the fatal shooting was really done by Anna Leonard, the wife of the victim. If the verdict of the jury in this case is in accordance with the fact, the…