State v. Goodley
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment, manslaughter for the shooting Harvey Turner, a colored boy, on Sunday afternoon, December 9, 1888, near Newport, in Christiana hundred. Goodley, Turner and several others were engaged in shooting at a target with a pistol. Goodley jestingly, and not knowing that the pistol was loaded, pointed it at Turner, saying that he would shoot him. The pistol was fired and Turner dropped, mortally wounded. He died on the evening of • the same day.
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Indictment, manslaughter for the shooting Harvey Turner, a colored boy, on Sunday afternoon, December 9, 1888, near Newport, in Christiana hundred. Goodley, Turner and several others were engaged in shooting at a target with a pistol. Goodley jestingly, and not knowing that the pistol was loaded, pointed it at Turner, saying that he would shoot him. The pistol was fired and Turner dropped, mortally wounded. He died on the evening of • the same day. Before his death Turner made a statement, saying-that the shooting was accidental. Goodley was held by the Coroner and afterwards indicted for…
1Opinion of the Court
Comegys, C. J.,
charging the jury :
This is an indictment, the third count of which is upon the *485third section of a statute passed at the January session, 1881, of the General Assembly, entitled “ An Act providing for the punishment of persons carrying concealed deadly weapons.” That section provides as follows:
“ That it shall be unlawful for any person, either in jest or otherwise, intentionally to point a gun, pistol or other fire-arm at or towards any other person at any time or place. Any person violating any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less…
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