Show their verdict pro the stories told 0 tho re mark ablo verdicts brought in by chent juries but there could scarcely be A bettor illustration of ahat a certain legal pian calla than the story ho tells of the verdict given by a jury in a western city the case under trial was that of a man who accidentally as almost every ono believed bad fatally shot a friend while the two were off with a hunting party the accused person was a prominent citizen of the and was greatly beloved as well as respected by every one who know him As tho trial proceeded the faces p the jurymen vero filled with anxiety when they at last retired iti became ev ident to them that tho prisoner could not be acquitted of all blame according to tho evidence but they decided that it ho must bo considered guilty of something they would makeham mak ehat something aa light as possible accordingly tha arpman gravely announced on thorp turn to the courtroom that they found the prisoner guilty of drunkenness in apito of the gravity of tho caso a ripple of amusement ran over the courtroom at this verdict the judge with considerable severity and with great clearness again charged tho jury and again they retired A long interval elapsed at last they pame straggling in again the foreman confronted the judge and thus announced the verdic ti find tho prisoner cuilty of man pl aughter in tho third degree but this in a tone of something like defiance wo dont ho did iti youths companion |