Brown v. State

Fisi-i, C. J:

Allen Brown, Jake Brown, Will Harris, and Bob Harris were jointly indicted for the offense of murder, the person alleged to have been murdered being Bob Hawk. All of the accused were charged as principals in the first degree, it being alleged that they “unlawful^, feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought did kill and murder, by shooting with a pistol and cutting with a knife the said Bob Hawk,” etc. At the trial under review, the plaintiff in error, Jake Brown, was alone tried, and was found guilty, with a recommendation that he be imprisoned in the penitentiarjr…