People v. Stern
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William Stern, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the County of New York, rendered on the 27th day of June, 1921, convicting him of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
On October 12, 1920, at about five-thirty p. m., in or near the building 108 West Thirty-ninth street, borough of Manhattan, city of New York, Paul Boittano was shot and killed by the defendant. The prosecution was unable to produce any eyewitness of the actual shooting which took place when deceased and defendant were alone. The prosecution produced testimony tending to show that they had quarrelled and come to blows shortly before the accident,, in a controversy arising over the sale of whisky. The defendant, who was a jewelry salesman carrying on his person jewelry of…
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