People v. Nicoll

These are appeals by both defendants front judgments of conviction of manslaughter in the first degree and assault in the third degree. The case was tried at great — it seems to us excessive — length before the County Court of Herkimer County. The defendants were found guilty on all counts of the indictment (except the second, which was dismissed on the trial), and they appeal to this court, assigning numerous errors and causes for reversal.

We deem it unnecessary to discuss the evidence in detail. There was evidence tending to establish that the defendants, who were young men of previously…