Order affirmed, without costs.
It appears that, although in a prior criminal action, the defendant had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the second degree for the killing of plaintiff's intestate, defendant now contends in the present civil action that he shot intestate in self defense. In this civil action, the defendant's prior conviction on his plea of guilty is not conclusive but only prima facie evidence of the facts involved (Sims v. Sims, 75 N.Y. 466...
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