Lanergan v. People
New York Court of Appeals
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Court of General Sessions of New York, at the April term, 1868, for murder, in taking the life of his wife Delia, on the 26th day of March, 1866. The indictment contained three counts, alleging severally a killing: first, with an axe; secondly, with a knife; and, thirdly, by beating and choking. He was tried at the June term, 1867, the Hon. John K. Hackett, recorder, presiding.
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The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Court of General Sessions of New York, at the April term, 1868, for murder, in taking the life of his wife Delia, on the 26th day of March, 1866. The indictment contained three counts, alleging severally a killing: first, with an axe; secondly, with a knife; and, thirdly, by beating and choking. He was tried at the June term, 1867, the Hon. John K. Hackett, recorder, presiding. The evidence, as given on the trial, tended to show that the prisoner and the deceased occupied two rooms on the second floor of a tenement house at No. 135 Washington street,…
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, J.
The plaintiff in error was convicted in the General Sessions of New York city, of the murder of his wife in that city, on the 26th day of March, 1867. The *220conviction was of murder in the first degree. The indictment contained three counts, alleging severally a killing with an axe, with a knife, and by beating and choking. After the evidence was in, the prisoner moved that the people be required to elect upon which of these counts, they would go to the jury, which was refused by the court, and the prisoner excepted. A witness for the people; George Cram, said that on the day- of the killing,…
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