Pembrook v. State

At Harvard, in Clay county, in an altercation between one French and the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, in which such French was the aggressor, the latter was stabbed several times by defendant with the blade of a small pocket knife, from which wounds French died. An information was filed which, omitting formal parts, charged that: “Defendant, unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and of his premeditated malice, stabbed Herbert French with a knife, and as a result thereof he died September 19, 1927. Defendant, Herbert T. Pembrook, thus committed murder in the first degree.” To…