State v. Mitchell

Defendant, James Mitchell, was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree. The information, filed by the prosecuting attorney for Pierce county, alleged:

“That the said James Mitchell in the County of Pierce, in the State of Washington, on or about the 18th day of December Nineteen Hundred and forty-six did then and there being unlawfully and feloniously with a premeditated design to effect the death of John R. Thompson, a human being, kill and murder the said John R. Thompson by shooting him with a pistol loaded with powder and ball thereby mortally wounding the said John R.…