He ended by saying that the verdict must be acquittal or murder in the first, degree.

If you find that the prisoner committed a homicide, in possession of her reason and with premeditation, your verdict will be accordingly.

If you find she was not in her right mind, that she was the victim of insanity, hereditary or momentary, as it has been explained, your verdict will take that into account.
As the Judge finished his charge, the spectators anxiously watched the faces of the jury.

It was not a remunerative study.

In the court room the general feeling was in favor of Laura, but whether this feeling extended to the jury, their stolid faces did not reveal.