Chivers v. State

BRICKEN, P. J.'

The defendant was put to trial in the court below upon an indictment which charged the offense of murder in the second degree. It was the contention of the state that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Joseph Keith by cutting him or by stabbing him with a knife, but without premeditation or deliberation.

The trial resulted in a conviction of the defendant of. manslaughter in the first degree, and the jury who, under the law, ascertain the degree of homicide and determine the punishment, found him guilty, as stated, of first degree manslaughter, and fixed his…