State of Oregon v. Holland

The defendant was charged with the crime of murder in the second degree. He entered a plea of not guilty, was tried by a jury, and found “guilty * * * as charged in the indictment.” He was sentenced, and now appeals. The indictment reads as follows:

“Oscar Holland is accused by the Grand Jury of the County of Grant by this Indictment of the crime of murder in the 2nd degree, committed as follows:

“The said Oscar Holland on the 31st day of October, 1953, in the said County of Grant, and State of Oregon, then and there being, did then and there purposely, and maliciously, kill Braskell Merle…