People v. Knights
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Yesawich, Jr., J.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Trial Term (Ellison, J.), rendered January 31, 1983 in Chemung County, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of murder in the second degree.
On the evening of July 9, 1982, defendant engaged in a vehement argument with his wife, Louise Knights, regarding her whereabouts earlier that evening. Awakened by the quarrelling, defendant’s stepson, James Abrams, went to his parents’ bedroom where he observed defendant striking his mother about the head with a metal pipe. When she urged her son to summon the police, defendant…
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