Defendant, after trial upon an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree, in effecting the death of his estranged wife, was convicted of murder in the second degree. Essential to the conviction, of course, was proof of defendant's "design to effect the death". (Penal Law, § 1046.) Such is to be found, if at all, in statements taken from defendant by the authorities and by inference from two so-called suicide notes which defendant is alleged to have prepared...
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