Show in due form borm A man was arraigned in an arkansas court many years ago for stealing a young pig out of his net neighbors li bors pen said eald pig or shoat being alleged to be worth a dollar and a half the tha evidence was conclusive and the jury after a brief retirement brought in their verdict guilty of nog hog stealing la in the first degree the judge remarked that the finding anding was waa proper enough except that it failed to assess the value of the tha pig and further that there were no degrees in hog bog stealing ile he roust must ask the jury to retire agala again and bring in a verdict in due form the jury went out with pen ink and paper but were badly nonplused nonplus ed over that word form finally one of them who had bad formerly been a justice of the peace drew up a document to which the other ether eleven assented and with which all hands returned to the tha courtroom this was the verdict we the tha find the defendant bilty in the sum of 1 I dollar and a 16 j in favor of the hog bog |