Barrentine v. State

—Walter Barrentine and Millie Barrentine seek relief here from a conviction of the crime of murder in the first degree. In their verdict the jury having recommended the defendants to the mercy of the court, they were sentenced to confinement in the State prison at hard labor for life.

The first assignment is based upon the overruling of the motion to quash the indictment, which consists of two counts, but, as the defendants were convicted under the first count, the legal effect of the verdict was to acquit them of the offense charged in the second count, therefore it becomes unnecessary to…