People v. Bester

New York Court of Appeals
People v. Bester, 79 N.E.2d 466 (N.Y. 1948)
297 N.Y. 408
<italic>Per Curiam.</italic>

People v. Bester

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The Trial Judge handed to the jury a chart listing “ the crimes submitted to you ” and directing the jury to consider such crimes in the order in which they are set forth on this Chart.” The sequence on the chart was as follows: “ Murder in the first degree, as a felony murder; murder in the first degree by premeditated and deliberate design; murder in the second degree; manslaughter in the first degree; manslaughter in the second degree ”. This procedure is now challenged by the defendant as being inconsistent with the opinion of Conway, J., in People v. Snyder (297 N. Y. 81, 90-91), but the proposition thus invoked (which had the support of three members of this court in the Snyder case) cannot here be considered, since the point is not presented by sufficient exceptions. (See Code Grim. Pro., § 420-a.)

The judgment should - be affirmed.

Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Thacher, Dye and Fuld, JJ., concur.

Judgment affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. John Bester, Appellant
Cited By
3 cases
Status
Published