Brockelhurst v. State

Appellant was charged jointly with Bernice Felton, by information, and convicted of murder in the first degree, for the killing of Victor A. Gates on May 6, 1937, the charging part of the information being as follows: “The said defendants, Lester W. Brockel-hurst and Bernice Felton, on the 6th day of May, A. D., 1937, in Lonoke county, Arkansas, did unlawfully, wil-fully, feloniously, with malice aforethought, and after premeditation and deliberation, while in the attempt to commit the crime of robbery, did kill and murder one Victor A. Gates, by then and there shooting him, the said Victor…