State v. Matrassey

The defendant was indicted and convicted for robbery in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The judgment of conviction was reversed in the District Court. The indictment contained only one count. There is no bill of exceptions that we can notice in this case, and we can therefore only examine whatever errors or irregularities appear upon the face of the record. The first point seems to. be that the court, on the first trial, discharged the jury when they failed to agree, without the consent of the prisoner. But the record does not show that any objection was…