State ex rel. Simms v. Carpenter

It appears from the record, that one Strickland was indicted in the Harrison County Circuit Court for the crime of murder in the first degree.

On a trial before a jury he was convicted of manslaughter in the third degree, and his punishment fixed in the verdict was, confinement in the penitentiary for the period of one -«■year. On his motion the court set aside the verdict, and granted him a new trial, and afterwards he voluntarily appeared and pleaded guilty of manslaugter in the third degree, and the court assessed his punishment at three mouths imprisonment in the county jail, and a fine of…