McDonald v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder, and on his trial was found guilty of manslaughter and not guilty of murder. Upon this verdict the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, in which he was tried, pronounced judgment, sentencing him to “five years imprisonment in the jail of Baltimore City,” and this judgment is brought before us for review, by writ of error.

The punishment prescribed by law (Act of 1864, ch. 89,) for the crime of manslaughter, is confinement in the pen-

*91itentiary for not more than ten years, or, in the discretion of the Court, a fine of not more than five hundred…