State v. Ouellette

The issue of the respondent’s guilt or innocence was submitted to the jury under the following sections of R. L., c. 455, both of which were read to the jury:

*492“8. First degree. Manslaughter, not being murder, nor excusable nor justifiable homicide, is of the first degree when perpetrated with a design to effect death, or when perpetrated without such design by a person engaged in the commission of any offense, or by two or more persons, or by a person bearing any deadly weapon, either open or concealed, or when perpetrated in a cruel or unusual manner, or by means of any deadly or dangerous…