People v. Yeager

On the afternoon of November 10, 1923, near the town of Berenda, in Madera County, on the state highway, while Clarence Pickett, a -traffic officer, was engaged in the performance of his duties, two shots from a .45 automatic revolver were fired into his body without provocation or justification and from the effects of one of which he shortly expired. The defendants herein, Walter Yeager and H. B. Terry, were .present when the shooting occurred and they were jointly charged by the information of the district attorney of Madera County with having killed and murdered the traffic officer. When…