State v. Hawkins

The defendant, John Hawkins, was charged, by information filed in the superior court for Whitman county, with the crime of murder in the first degree, in that he did, on the 29th day of November, 1914, “feloniously and with premeditated design to eifect the death of one George A. Miller, kill and murder said George A. Miller.” His trial before the court and a jury resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree against him. Judgment was rendered thereon sentencing the defendant to the penitentiary, from which judgment he has appealed to this court.

Appellant and deceased were…