Welch v. State

Warner, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted for the offense of murder. On the first trial of the accusation, the jury found the defendant guilty. The Court below granted a new trial, and on the second trial, the jury found the following verdict: “We, the jury, find the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.” A motion was made in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the verdict of the jury was too indefinite, uncertain and illegal, and is so contrary to law that no legal judgment or sentence can be pronounced or executed upon the same; which motion was overruled, and the defendant excepted.

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