Kennedy v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer for the county of St. Lawrence, tbe Plaintiff in Error was indicted, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung for murder.
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At a Court of Oyer and Terminer for the county of St. Lawrence, tbe Plaintiff in Error was indicted, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung for murder. The indictment charged that on the 10th of February, 1867, John Kennedy (the Plaintiff in Error), at the town of Dekalb in the said county, &e., “ in and upon one Thomas Hand, alias Thomas Jackson, in the peace of the people,” &c., “ wilfully and feloniously, deliberately and premedi-tately did make an assault,” and “ with a certain axe .which he, the said John Kennedy, in his hands then and there had and held, him, the said Thomas…
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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] 1. In Fitzgerald v. The People (37 N.Y. 413), this court, at the March Term last past, decided, that an indictment charging the prisoner in terms nearly identical with those employed in the present…
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