Sanchez, Plaintiff in Error v. the People

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals held that the indictment was sufficient despite not specifying the exact body part, that the court's decision as trier of fact on a juror challenge for favor is not reviewable, that evidence of the prisoner’s wife's alleged adultery is admissible only if shown to be temporally proximate to the homicide, and that an expert's doubt about insanity is not admissible; consequently, the judgment was reversed and a new trial ordered, with the reversal grounded in a recent change to capital punishment law.