State v. Newhouse

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Spencer, I.

The defendants were indicted, and tried at the April term 1876 of the Superior Criminal Court, for murder. The verdict of the-jury was not guilty as to A. Newhouse and guilty of manslaughter as to T, J. Newhouse, who was accordingly sentenced to twenty years hard labor. He appeals and presents various grounds for reversal of said yerdict and sentence. We shall notice but two of them.

The fifth section of act No. 124 of 1874 provides:

• “ Be it further enacted, etc., That on and after the first day of April, 1874, all grand and petit juries in…