McGee v. State

The appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Scott county for the murder of one Medad Randall. The indictment charged, that the defendant “ feloniously, wilfully, deliberately, and premeditatedly, and of his malice aforethought,” assaulted the said Randall, and with a knife, “ feloniously, wilfully, deliberately and premeditatedly, and of his malice aforethought,” struck the said Randall upon his right breast, a little above the right nipple, giving him a mortal wound, of which he instantly died. The indictment, in other respects, pursues the usual form of indictments for murder in the…