PEOPLE v. LEYRA


302 N.Y. 353 (1951)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Camilo Weston Leyra, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 12, 1951


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry G. Anderson and Frederick W. Scholem for appellant.

Miles F. McDonald, District Attorney (William I. Siegel of counsel), for respondent.

LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE and FULD, JJ., concur.


FROESSEL, J.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, January 10, 1950, Camilo Leyra, Sr., seventy-five years old, and Catherine, his wife, eighty years old, were found dead in their rear apartment on the first floor of premises 105 Quincy Street, Brooklyn. Death resulted in each case from a fractured skull, caused by several blows from a hammer. Their son, Camilo Leyra, Jr., fifty years old, is the defendant in this action...

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