Mongeon v. . People of the State of N.Y.

The act of 1869 (Laws of 1869, chap. 631) declares that any person committing the offence of which the plaintiff in error was charged shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of manslaughter in the second degree; and the statutory punishment for that offence is imprisonment in a State prison not less than four and not more than seven years. (2 R.S., 662, § 20.) The act of 1872 (Laws of 1872, chap. 181) declares that any person that shall thereafter commit the same offence shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a felony, and punished by imprisonment in a State prison for a term not less…