People v. . Jernatowski

Hiscock, Ch. J.:

The defendant has been convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree committed upon a woman named Hanover.

The background of this alleged crime was a railroad strike in Buffalo. The decedent’s husband was a foreman in the employ of the railroad company and stayed at his post when the strike occurred. It does not appear whether the defendant was a striker but apparently he had a vicious animosity toward those who continued in or entered into the employ of the railroad company at the time of the strike. As standing out against this background the jury were entitled to find…