State v. Ross

The opinion of the Court'was delivered by

Todd, J.

The defendant was indicted for murder, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the Penitentiary for life. Erom this sentence he has appealed.

*855He assigns in this Court errors in the proceedings in the words following :

First — “That the verdict rendered by the jury, to wit, ‘gulty with-oit capitel purnish,’ ‘signed H. Eouth, foreman,’ is illegal, null, and void, not authorized by or known to the laws of the State of Louisiana, and does not justify any judgment save that of discharge without day.”

Second — “That it was…