Pair v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The indictment in this case contained four counts. Each count, proper in form and substance, charged the defendant with the offense of murder in the first degree, in that he unlawfully, and with malice aforethought killed Clyde Casey, etc. (setting out in each count the manner and means of the killing).

The trial below resulted in the conviction of the defendant by a general verdict of the jury, as follows: “We the jury find the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree as charged in the indictment and fix his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary…