People v. Lamb
New York Court of Appeals
Writ of error. Roger Lamb, the plaintiff in error, was tried and convicted of the murder of his wife, at the March term of the court of general sessions, 1865, A. D. Russel, city judge, presiding; and the prisoner was sentenced to be executed. Upon the fifth of May following, a writ of error and stay of execution was obtained, and the case carried to the court of appeals.
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Writ of error. Roger Lamb, the plaintiff in error, was tried and convicted of the murder of his wife, at the March term of the court of general sessions, 1865, A. D. Russel, city judge, presiding; and the prisoner was sentenced to be executed. Upon the fifth of May following, a writ of error and stay of execution was obtained, and the case carried to the court of appeals. Upon the trial, the plaintiff in error offered to prove the character of the deceased, which was excluded, and exception taken. This, with certain exceptions taken to the judge’s charge, constituted the grounds upon which a…
1Opinion of the Court
Davies, Ch. J.
The prisoner was indicted and convicted in the Hew York General Sessions for the murder of his wife, Joanna Lamb. The prisoner and his wife occupied a room in Sixth avenue, in that city, and at the time of the homicide there were present in the room the prisoner and his wife, Ann Kennedy, Mary Riley, Bridget Curtis, and a little girl named Joanna Clifford, who was the daughter of the deceased by a former husband, and then aged about eight years. The prisoner and his wife, according to the testimony of Kennedy, came together into the room about six or seven o’clock in the…
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