State v. Martin

On March 9, 1951, the defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Adair County, the indictment being in these terms:

“The Grand Jurors of the County of Adair in the name and by the authority of the State of Iowa accuse Max Burnell Martin of the crime of First Degree Murder as defined in section 690.2 of the 1950 Code of Iowa and charge that the said Max Burnell Martin on or about the 19th day of January, A. D., 1951, in the County of Adair and State of Iowa did wilfully, *1325deliberately, feloniously, and with premeditation and malice aforethought, or while in the perpetration or attempt to…