People v. Woltering

Defendant was indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree, based upon the shooting and killing of one David North on the 1st day of February, 1935. The jury found the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. The conviction rests upon circumstantial evidence.

The deceased was thirty-two years of age and resided at the southeast corner of One Hundred and Eighty-first street and Grand avenue in the Bronx. South of the apartment house in which deceased lived and immediately adjoining it, is a church yard with a driveway running through the yard east and west. The rear of the…