People v. Hill

This is a motion to correct an order made by this court reversing the judgment of the oyer and terminer by adding to such order a direction for a new trial, or that the defendant be discharged, or his bail exonerated, as required by Code Crim. Proc. § 545. The defendant was indicted for murder in the second degree,, and at the oyer and terminer held in Delaware county, September,. 1890, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. From the judgment of conviction thus rendered an appeal was taken to this-court, where the judgment was reversed for errors in rejecting evidence offered by the…