State v. Ayers

The prisoner was arraigned for (rial before the Criminal Court of Knox county upon an indictment as accessory before the fact to the crime of murder in the first degree. The indictment charges that John Webb and David Duncan, on the 5th day of March, 1874, in the county (of Knox) aforesaid, did unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, maliciously, deliberately, pre-meditatedly, and of their malice aforethought, kill and murder one Richard F. Reynolds in the peace of the State, then and there being by shooting him, the said Richard F. Reynolds, with a pistol, of which shooting as aforesaid the said…