Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lonoke Circuit Court. James S. Thomas, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Harriett Jones, was indicted in the Lonoke circuit court, on the 7th day of January, 1893, for the crime of being accessory to the murder in the first degree of her husband, Lafayette Jones ; the indictment being as follows, to-wit: “The grand jury of Lonoke county, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse Harriett Jones of the crime of ‘ accessory before…
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Appeal from Lonoke Circuit Court. James S. Thomas, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Harriett Jones, was indicted in the Lonoke circuit court, on the 7th day of January, 1893, for the crime of being accessory to the murder in the first degree of her husband, Lafayette Jones ; the indictment being as follows, to-wit: “The grand jury of Lonoke county, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse Harriett Jones of the crime of ‘ accessory before the fact ’ to murder in the first degree, committed as follows, to-wit: That . Millege Mitchell, Green Brewer and…
1Opinion of the Court
Bunn, C. J.,
i. Fonu of accessory to a murder. (after stating the facts.) The'motion m arrest oi judgment was properly overruled, the dictment properly charging a crime within the jurisdiction of the court, and which, if sustained by proof,would have been sufficient to base the j'udgment of the court upon. The obj'ection to the indictment is that it fails to charge that defendant, before the murder was committed, unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously, “and with malice aforethought, and zuith -premeditation and deliberation,” did advise and encourage the perpetration of the crime ; the contention…
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