People v. . Van Aken
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Ulster County Court rendered June 21, 1915, upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The court erred in its rulings on the admission of evidence. (People v. Van Gaasbeck, 189 N. Y. 408; People v. Camorato, 133 App. Div. 260; People v. Smith, 172 N. Y. 211.)
1Opinion of the Court
Cárdozo, J.:
The defendant has been convicted of the murder of his wife. It is charged that after a married life of twenty-five years he killed her in their home at Port Ewen in Ulster county. The evidence is circumstantial. The People say that the circumstances point unerringly to the defendant as the criminal. The defendant says that the crime remains an unsolved mystery.
About noon on October 22, 1914, and probably at the hour of 12:13, the defendant took his horse and wagon from the barn and drove to Rondout, a mile away. He could have gone by the main street of the village. He went by a…
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