Wade v. State

Plaintiffs in error, Jessie Wade and Boyd Cheatham, were indicted along with one Ben Franklin for the murder of John Wallace. On motion of plaintiffs in error they were granted a severance and upon their trial the verdict rendered by the jury was “that they find the defendants guilty of aiding and abetting in involuntary manslaughter and assess their punishment at confinement in the county workhouse for a period of eleven months and twenty-nine days.”

Plaintiffs in error moved the court in arrest of judgment upon the ground that the verdict is void and a nullity and unknown to the law. The…