People v. Burgess
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by defendant Alfred L. Burgess from a judgment of the Court of General Session of New York, Hon. Rueus B. Cowing, presiding, of November 15 1886, upon a conviction of assault in the first degree.
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Appeal by defendant Alfred L. Burgess from a judgment of the Court of General Session of New York, Hon. Rueus B. Cowing, presiding, of November 15 1886, upon a conviction of assault in the first degree. The indictment in this case was as follows: “ The grand jury of the City and County of New York by this indictment accuse Alfred L. Burgess and Anna Mulholland of the crime of assault in the first degree, committed as follows : The said Alfred L. Burgess and Anna Mulholland, both late of the First Ward of the City of New York aforesaid, on the 7th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1886, at…
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brxtnt, P. J.
The defendant was indicted for having committed the crime of assault in the first degree. The indictment stated that the defendant together with one Anna Mulholland did wilfully and feloniously make an assault upon one Mary E. Burgess, and did then and there wilfully and feloniously administer and cause to be administered to and taken by her, the said Mary E. Burgess, a certain poison to the Grand Jury unknown, with intent to kill the said Mary E. Burgess, by means whereof the life of the said Máry E. Burgess was then and there endangered.
The defendant upon the trial of this indictment was…
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