State v. Parker

OPINION OF THE COURT

SIMMS, J.

Appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter under an information which charged him with murder in the first degree. Here he raises for the first time the question of the jurisdiction of the trial court to try and sentence him for voluntary manslaughter, and cites section 9, c. 145, Laws 1925, which reads:

“The indictment or information must charge but one offense; but where the same acts majr constitute different offenses the accused may be convicted of, .the different offenses may be set forth in separate counts in the same indictment or information and the…