People v. Murphy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Mary Murphy, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cayuga on the 26th day of April, 1919, convicting her of the crime of murder in the second degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Kruse, P. J.:
The facts have been quite fully stated in the opinion of Mr. Justice Clark, but I think a little more should be said about the mental condition of Michael Murphy, whom the defendant has been convicted of murdering. While the evidence shows that he came to his death by strangulation, and that Mary Murphy, the defendant, may have caused his death, I think it is at least as probable that he committed suicide. The evidence shows beyond question that he was afflicted with senile dementia and of suicidal tendency.
For a time he had been an inmate of St. Ann’s Home, an institution in the…
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