Sheppard v. State

Johnson Palmer, Jim Sheppard and Johnnie Palmer were jointly charged with the crime of murder by an indictment the body of which is as follows: “The grand jury of Union County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, on oath, accuse the defendants, Johnson Palmer, Jim Sheppard and Johnnie Palmer, of the crime of murder in first degree, committed as follows, to-wit: The said defendant, on the 20th day of March, 1922, in Union County, Arkansas, did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and of his malice aforethought, and after premeditation and deliberation, kill and murder one…