Nelson v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree, the indictment charging that he “did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously with malice aforethought and after premeditation and deliberation, kill and murder one Mary Sue Wilson Nelson, by striking and throwing her * * * into and upon the waters of White River with the unlawful, felonious, deliberate and premeditated intent then and there to kill and murder her * * * by drowning, whereby the said Mary Sue Wilson Nelson did then and there come to her death by drowning, as aforesaid, against the peace and dignity of the State of Arkansas.” Upon…