Drake v. State

— Appellant was tried upon an indictment charging the crime of murder in the first degree, and found guilty of murder in the second degree.

There was a motion to quash the indictment, which was overruled, and this is complained of as error. The part of the indictment upon which the question is presented is as follows: “That Ranph Drake, on the 1st day of June, 1893, at and in the county of Bartholomew, and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, kill and murder one Ida Ward, by then and there feloniously, purposely, and with…