People v. Petmecky
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Fifth .Department, October, 1884 (2 N. 7. Grim. Rep. 450), affirming a judgment convicting defendant, Franz Joseph Petmecky, of the crime of murder in the first degree. The facts and exceptions are fully set forth in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Ruger, Ch. J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, at a court of Oyer and Terminer, held in Cayuga county in January, 1884.
The indictment charged him with the act of killing one Paulina Froitzheim, at the city of Auburn, on June 1, 1883, with malice aforethought, and from a deliberate and premeditated design to effect her death. Another count was to the effect that the commission of the same crime was effected by *290him while engaged in the perpetration of a felony, to wit; grand larceny.
The evidence shows that the crime was committed on the day alleged, at the…
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