State v. Foster

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The defendants, appeal from a sentence of death for the crime of murder.

A brief extract from the minutes of the court, as presented in the record, will disclose the only point which we find it necessary to discuss on this appeal:

“The jury appeared in court, and on being polled each juror answered to his name, as follows, etc.; whereupon James Camorse, foreman, handed to his Honor, the judge, the verdict in this case. The court ordered the clerk to read the verdict. It read as follows: ‘ Both guilty of capital punishment, (Signed) Jas.…