State v. Mickle

De Graff, J. —

Cecil Mickle was jointly indicted with one Jack Gaskill for the crime of murder in the first degree. The victim of the homicide was Thomas B. Griffin, who died November 15, 1923, from bullet wounds inflicted, as charged in the indictment, by the defendants. It appears from the record that the defendant Mickle and his associate Gaskill were joint-adventurers in crime. On the day of Griffin’s death, they had been engaged in stripping an automobile which they had stolen the preceding night; but, before completing the job, they abandoned the enterprise, having become suspicious that…