Craig v. State

William Craig and William Rash, hereafter called the defendants, were convicted in the district court for Cherry county of murder in the second degree for the killing of one Elijah Custard. Craig was sentenced to life imprisonment, Rash was sentenced to serve ten years in the state penitentiary, and they have brought the case *467here by separate petitions in error. The information on which they were tried charged Craig with the murder as principal, and Rash as accessory before the fact. Their petitions contain a great many assignments of error, but three of which appear to be relied on for a…