Allen v. State

The appellant was tried in the Arkansas circuit court, for the murder of Mark Hubbard.

The jury returned a verdict ©f “guilty, as charged in the indictment.”

The defendant moved in arrest of judgment, because the verdict did not find the degree of the crime; and for his discharge from custody, on the ground that, having been once put in jeopardy, he could not be tried again upon the same charge; but his motion was overruled, and he was sentenced to be hanged.

We have decided, at the present term, in the case of Thompson v. The State, ante, that a verdict of conviction, in a ease of murder, which…