State v. . Bloodworth

The jury returned the following special verdict, to-wit: "The jury find, that the defendant was the occupier and cultivator of a farm, and that he did not have and keep a fence five feet high around the same during the crop season of the year 1885. But whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty under this bill of indictment, the jury are not instructed, and pray the instruction of the Court. If the Court shall be of the opinion that the defendant, under this finding of fact, is guilty, then the jury find that he is guilty, but if not, then he is not guilty. "

Whereupon, the Court being of…