Barker v. State

At the April, 1904, term of the district court for Webster county, Prank Barker was charged with the murder of his brother Daniel Barker and his sister-in-law Alice Barker. He was tried on the first count of the information, which charged him with killing his brother Daniel, and was found guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree, the jury fixing the death penalty; and from the judgment and sentence of the court he prosecutes error.

1. His first contention is that the information does not charge him with the crime of murder in the first degree, and is not sufficient to sustain a…