Jacobs v. State

DOYLE, Judge.

Melvin M. Jacobs, plaintiff in error, was convicted of murder. His conviction was had upon an indictment returned at the March, 1909, term of the district court of the Twentieth judicial district, held within and for Alfalfa county, wherein said indictment charged that he did on the 1st day of February, 1909, with malice aforethought, kill and murder one Arthur L. Strole, by shooting him with a pistol. Hpon his trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed the penalty at imprisonment for life at hard labor in the state penitentiary. April 1, 1909, the court pronounced…