Brooks v. State

(Shields, J.

At the November, 1922, term of the Court of Common Pleas of Perry county, plaintiff in error, Charles Brooks, was indicted for murder in the first degree, in which indictment it was charged, in the usual form, that on the 27th day of November, 1922, said Brooks shot with a pistol one Henry Bums in and upon the left side of his head, with intent to kill, causing a mortal wound, from the effects of which he died. Upon arraignment, the plaintiff in error entered a plea of guilty to the crime charged in the indictment, and afterward, and before sentence, a motion was filed in his…