People v. Conroy
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the City and County of New York, of December 6, 1883, convicting defendant, William Conroy, of murder in the first degree. The facts appear in the opinions.
1Opinion of the CourtBarrett, J.
Conroy was convicted of murder in the first degree, upon an indictment charging him with the killing of one Keenan. The indictment is under the first subdivision of section 183 of the Penal Code; and it avers that the killing was from a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of Keenan.
We have gone over the evidence with care, and we are of opinion that the element of deliberation is entirely wanting. The learned judge should, as requested, have withdrawn the question of murder in the first degree from the consideration *248of the jury. His instructions upon the law of the two…
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