Hansen v. State

This is a criminal action in which Hansen is charged with murder in the first degree. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary. He prosecutes proceedings in error to this court.

It is urged that the information does not state facts sufficient to constitute a charge of murder in the second degree and therefore the court was without jurisdiction. This is a question of first concern to this court. That part of the information which charges the crime of murder in the first degree is as nearly in the identical language suggested by this court in…