People v. . Coleman

Werner, J.:

There is little to say of the history of the homicide for which the defendant was indicted, tried and convicted, except that it is the oft-repeated and too familiar story of drunkenness, jealousy and murder. On the 29th -day of December, 1908, the defendant killed his wife in their apartment at No. 36 West 136th street in the Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York. The defendant was twenty-five years of age, his wife was two years younger, and they had been married but little more than -a year. He was a cook in the railroad dining car service, and she worked for various…