Mertz v. People

This was an indictment for libel containing three counts, each count, however, being a charge of the same offense. Plaintiff in error was tried by a jury, who returned a general verdict of guilty, upon which the court entered a general sentence of nine months imprisonment in the county jail, after overruling motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, to reverse which judgment this writ of error is prosecuted. The record contains no bill of exceptions. The grounds relied upon for reversal are, first, that the verdict is not signed by the jurors who were impaneled and sworn to try the…