Cox v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment, affirming a. judgment of the Court of General Sessions, in and for the-. city and county of New York, entered upon a verdict, convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 19 Hun, 430.) Most of the material facts are set forth sufficiently in the opinion.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment, affirming a. judgment of the Court of General Sessions, in and for the-. city and county of New York, entered upon a verdict, convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree. (Reported below, 19 Hun, 430.) Most of the material facts are set forth sufficiently in the opinion. Upon the trial certain confessions of the prisoner were admitted in evidence under objection and exception. The first confession was made at the station-house in Boston to the police officer…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
This is a writ of error, brought to review the conviction of the plaintiff in error, in the Court of General Sessions of the city and county of Yew York, of the crime of murder in the first degree, in killing one Jane De Forrest Hull, on the 11th day of June, 1879.
' The general facts are that the prisoner, during the nighttime, burglariously entered the house of the deceased, and while engaged in stealing jewelry and other property in her bedroom awakened the deceased, and thereupon the prisoner went to the bed where the deceased was lying, and a struggle ensued between them. The next morning…
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