The People v. . Rugg
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the defendant, Charles H. Rngg, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme court in the second department, December 9, 1884, affirming a judgment of the court of Oyer and Terminer of Queens county, lion. Chas. F. Brown presiding, April 17, 1884, convicting the defendant of murder in the first degree.
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Appeal by the defendant, Charles H. Rngg, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme court in the second department, December 9, 1884, affirming a judgment of the court of Oyer and Terminer of Queens county, lion. Chas. F. Brown presiding, April 17, 1884, convicting the defendant of murder in the first degree. Defendant was indicted March 7, 1884, for the murder of Ann E. Maybee, alleged to have been committed November 17, 1883. The indictment, which was found in the court of Sessions, was ordered to be tried at Oyer and Terminer. It contained four counts. The first count charged the…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree, in killing one Ann E. Maybee, in the town of Oyster Bay, Queens county, on November 17, 1883, and was tried and convicted of the offense in the court of Oyer and Terminer, held in said county, on April 14, 1884.
The jury rendered a general verdict of “ guilty,” without designating the degree of the crime.
Yarious questions were raised upon the trial, and are now presented on this appeal, and, so far as they affect the legality of the proceedings and the conviction of the defendant, will receive due consideration.
The first question…
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