Cruce v. State

Whitfield, , J.

The indictment herein sufficiently charges murder in the first degree, alleged to have been *193committed “-unlawfully and from a premeditated design to effect the death of ’ ’ the person killed, who was a man, and of course a human being, within the contemplation of the statutory definition of murder. Chap. 8470, Acts of 1921.

At the trial the court gave, among others, the following charges:

“8. If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant unlawfully killed the deceased at the time and place and by the means charged in the indictment and that he did so…