State v. Baker

— The defendants were, by information verified by the prosecuting attorney for Clark county and filed in the superior court for that county, charged with the crime of murder in the first degree, as follows:

“That they, the said Luther Baker, Ellis Baker and Lewis ‘Ted’ Baker, on or about the 22nd day of May, 1927, in the county of Clark, state of Washington, did, then and there, with a premeditated design to effect the death of Lester M. Wood, sheriff of said Clark county, and any other officer who might attempt to inquire into and interfere with the illicit liquor operations then being…