Register v. State

A verdict of voluntary manslaughter was returned! against the accused, and this verdict was set aside on the ground that a verdict of involuntary manslaughter, which the court had previously declined' to receive, was a legal verdict and a final termination of the case. 10 Ga. App. 623 (74 S. E. 429). Subsequently the accused were arraigned under the indictment and filed pleas setting up that the effect of the refusal of the court to receive-the verdict of involuntary manslaughter was to declare a mistrial,, and operated to acquit the accused, and that if this were not true,, the verdict…