WHITE, Justice.
The plaintiff-in-error, defendant, was indicted and tried upon a charge of murder in the first degree. The jury in returning its verdict found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at confinement in the State Penitentiary for a period of not more than twenty years.
A motion for a new trial was seasonably filed, argued and overruled. The defendant then moved in arrest of judgment and this motion, too, was...
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