People v. Goodwin
New York Supreme Court
THE prisoner was indicted and tried at the Court of . Ceneral Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the City and J County of New-York, in March last, for manslaughter, in billing James Stoughton, Esq. on the 8ih of January last. The trial lasted five days.
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THE prisoner was indicted and tried at the Court of . Ceneral Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the City and J County of New-York, in March last, for manslaughter, in billing James Stoughton, Esq. on the 8ih of January last. The trial lasted five days. The jury having retired to consider of their verdict, at two o’clock in the morning of the fifth day, remained until six o’clock in the afternoon of the same day (Saturday) when they came into court, and being asked as to their verdict, answered, by their foreman, that they found the prisoner guilty, but begged leave to recommend him to…
1Opinion of the Court
Spencer, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court. A motion has been made to discharge the defendant, on the ground that it appears by the return to the certiorari, that he has been once tried, and therefore cannot legally be tried again. He was indicted in the Sessions in New-Yorlc for manslaughter ; the trial continued for five days, and the jury, after having received the charge of the Court, retired to con. sider of their verdict; were kept together 17 hours, and declaring there was no probability of their agreeing on their verdict, were discharged after 11 o’clock at night, on the last…
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