State v. Pinkerton

On the 17th of September, 1925, the county attorney of Tama County filed information against the appellant and another, charging first-degree murder by willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing. The appellant filed a written plea of guilty to the information as charged, and the court there-Up0n^ Section 12913 of the Code of 1924, examined witnesses, to determine the degree of the crime, and found that appellant was guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the information.

The charge of murder grew out of the following facts, all of which are admitted in the written confession of…