People v. Brecht
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lena Brecht, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the county of New York, rendered on the 16th-.day. of.-January, 1906, convicting the defendant of the. crime of manslaughter in the first degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The defendant was indicted and convicted of the Crime of manslaughter in the first degree in having caused the. death 'of one Pauline Schaefer through .performing a criminal operation upon her. There is no direct evidence that the defendant performed or aided in the criminal operation. For that fact the' People were compelled to rely upon the-alleged dying declarations of the victim.
The extrinsic facts proved by unchallenged evidence were that two doctors were summoned to defendant’s house to treat a woman whom they found suffering from a punctured womb and whom ■they directed to…
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- People v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
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