 | George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1833 - 640 pages
...wickedly, and of malice aforethought. The fact and the motives must be found by the jury, because they must find the defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment. The jury must he of one mind ; and their mind must be convinced, fairly, honestly and impartially convinced,... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, Return Jonathan Meigs - 1839 - 720 pages
...statutes, still they ought not to acquit on that account. 1. A verdict of conviction is, formally, that we find the defendant guilty, in manner and form as charged in the indictment. In this case, Dyer is charged with selling a gill of spirits contrary to the form of the statute, in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...B. Smith, Sullivan ariin ; and on the same day the said jury returned the following verdict : " We find the defendant guilty, in manner and form as charged in the idictment." And the prisoner was recommended by the jury to the mercy of the turt. Sentence postponed... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - 1847 - 688 pages
...BLACKFORD, J. — Indictment for malicious trespass. Plea, 1844"*"^ ' not guilty. Verdict as follows : u We the jury find the defendant guilty in manner and...dollars and two days' imprisonment in the county jail." Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were made by the defendant and overruled. The following... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1856 - 886 pages
...the complaint." SEc. 19. If the verdict be for the complainant, it shall be in the following form : " We. the jury, find the defendant guilty, in manner and form as charged in the complaint ; and do further find that the complainant has sustained damages, by reason of the premises,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1917 - 720 pages
...that the verdict of a jury in such a case, in form, "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty," or, "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment," is a sufficient finding that all of the essential elements of the crime charged in the indictment have... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1864 - 604 pages
...defendant, if the jury believe, from the evidence, that a knife or some similar weapon was used. 3. If the jury find the defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment, then it is their duty to fix the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1867 - 632 pages
...any of the matters so offered in evidence by the defendant, to which he excepted. The jury returned a verdict as follows : " We, the jury, find the defendant guilty in manner and form charged in plaintiff's bill of complaint, and assess his damages for wrongfully withholding of the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1921 - 696 pages
...necessary that a verdict of guilty shall make the same recital, but it is sufficient if the verdict find the defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment. 14. SAME — it is not error to omit instruction as to manslaughter in trial for murder by abortion.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1916 - 720 pages
...offense. A verdict in a prosecution for selling intoxicating liquor in anti-saloon territory which finds the defendant guilty, in manner and form as charged in the indictment, upon "the following counts: all the counts in the indictment," is equivalent to a finding of guilty... | |
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We, the jury, find the defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment;' and, if you find him not guilty, you will say, • We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty. 
