State v. Garvey

Ludelin®, C. J.

The defendants, charged with murder, were convictecl of manslaughter, and they were sentenced to the Penitentiary for twenty years.

There are two bills of exception in the record. The first is as follows:

“ Be it remembered that on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1876, ■on the trial of the above-entitled case, one William Carlton, a witness for the State, then being on the witness-stand, who, after testifying that .he was a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police force, and at the time the *926offense charged against the accused is alleged to have been committed, 'was acting as such…