People v. . Eng Hing and Lee Dock

The defendants have been convicted of murder in the first degree. The charge is that on the 27th day of February, 1912, between 7 and 8 o’clock, they shot Lee Kay while he was in a small store known as No. 18 Mott street, in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, and inflicted upon him a wound from which he died on the 10th day of June in the same year. The defendants have been twice tried. On the first trial the jury disagreed, and on the second trial the defendants were convicted. From the judgment entered upon the verdict rendered on the second trial the defendants have appealed to…