State v. Puckett

ZINN, Justice.

This case arose upon an information filed by the district attorney charging the appellant as follows: “That John H. Puckett, on the first day of October, 1934, at the county of Lea, and the State of New Mexico, did willfully, premeditatedly, deliberately and with malice aforethought, kill and murder John Fields by shooting him with a pistol, contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of New Mexico.'’

After the parties had announced themselves ready for trial and the first twelve veniremen had been called…