Phegley v. State

Defendant, plaintiff in error, was charged in the district court for Adams county with murder in the first degree. Trial was had, verdict of murder in the second degree found, and sentence of 12 years in the penitentiary imposed. To reverse this judgment defendant prosecutes error.

Defendant interposed a motion to quash the information, for the reason, in substance, that it does not set forth the location, nature and extent of the wounds on the body of deceased; that the words in the information, “as a result thereof she died,” and “defendant thus committed murder in the first degree,” are not…