People v. . Leonardi

The defendant appeals from the judgment of the Montgomery oyer and terminer entered upon the verdict of a jury convicting him of the crime of murder in the first degree. He was convicted of the killing of one Conover by stabbing him with a knife. The defendant is an Italian about twenty-four years of age. On the afternoon of September 12, 1893, in one of the streets of Amsterdam, he met the deceased and inflicted upon him the wounds from which he died in the course of a few days. The killing was done publicly, in the presence of a number of people, and so far as the deceased was concerned it…