People v. Wood
New York Supreme Court
The prisoner had been convicted of murder at the Livingston Oyer and Terminer, and sentenced to be executed, and an application was made in his behalf for the allowance of a writ of error, and a stay of the execution of the judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
The principal ground on which the application for the writ of error in this case rests is, that upon the trial evidence was allowed against the prisoner, tending to prove that both previous and subsequent to the time of the alleged murder, for which he was then on trial, he had been guilty of other and separate acts of a felonious character, for which indictments were then pending against him.. Such evidence was allowed on the trial of the indictment upon which the prisoner was convicted, but it was not offered or allowed upon the principal issue, nor for the purpose of raising any direct…
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