People v. Schmidt

The appellant was tried and found guilty of murder of the first degree upon an information which alleged that he committed the crime of murder as follows: “ The said Herman Schmidt, on the 24th day of June, 1882, at the county of Butte, and State of California, and before the finding of this information, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, did shoot, kill, and murder M. Schmidt, contrary to the form, force, and effect of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of" the people of the State of California.”

“ Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being…