Ex parte Mankichi

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J. (Galbraith, J., dissenting.)

These are appeals from, orders discharging the petitioners in habeas corpus proceedings.

The prisoners had been indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced at the May Term, 1899, of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit. They were convicted and sentenced as follows: Mankichi, manslaughter in the first degree, nine jurors, imprison*571ment for twenty years; Hayzo, rape, nine jurors, imprisonment for life; Ichigoro, murder in the first degree, ten jurors, death, commuted, we believe, to imprisonment for life; Nenchiro, manslaughter in the…