The question submitted to us in this case is of more than ordinary importance. Its decision will result not merely in determining the extent of the punishment of the particular prisoner now before us, but either in establishing in this State a rule of procedure in criminal cases which will most materially affect every individual who may be hereafter charged with offences of a grade inferior to felony, or in rejecting the rule claimed by the prosecution as not founded in sound legal principle…
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