People v. Seiler

The defendant has been indicted and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree. The indictment charges in common-law form that the defendant and two other men, jointly indicted, but not tried with the defendant, “ willfully, feloniously and of their malice aforethought ” did assault one James Masterson and inflicted upon him a mortal wound with a pistol held against the said James Masterson, and that “ the said defendants him, the said James Masterson, in the manner and form and by the means aforesaid, willfully, feloniously and of their malice aforethought did kill and murder.” The…