State v. Allen

At the April term, 1898, of the District Court of Cowley County, Peter Allen was convicted of manslaughter in the third degree upon an information charging him with the wilful, deliberate and premeditated murder of John Mann. Before the trial, upon which a conviction was had, the defendant filed a plea of former jeopardy, alleging a trial upon the same charge at the November term, 1897, of the same court, before a jury duly impaneled, and that *759evidence on the part 0f the State and the defendant was offered, and that after the evidence had been closed and the case fully submitted to the jury…