People ex rel. Kemmler v. Durston
New York County Court, Cayuga County
Hearing upon a return to a writ of habeas corpus. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
At a court of Oyer and Terminer held at Buffalo, FT. Y., on the 10th day of May, 1889, in a criminal action wherein the people of the State of New York were plaintiffs, and William Kemmler, otherwise called John Ilort, was defendant, he ivas convicted of murder in the first degree, in that, on or about March 29th of that year, in that city, he killed Matilda Ziegler, alias Matilda Hort, from a deliberate and premeditated design to effect her death, and on the 14th day of May aforesaid he was, for his crime, sentenced by said court to suffer death, to be inflicted by the application of…
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