State v. Gallagher

The defendant was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree, in that, on or about the first day of August, 1938, the defendant

“. . . did then and there being unlawfully and feloniously with the premeditated design to effect the death of Arthur W. Nelson, a human being, kill and murder the said Arthur W. Nelson, by shooting the said Arthur W. Nelson with a pistol loaded with powder and ball, which he, the said Quin Gallagher then and there had and held in his hand and thereby mortally wounding the said Arthur W. Nelson, from which said mortal wounds the said Arthur W. Nelson did…