State v. Chee Gong

The appellants, with Chung Ling, Yee Long, and Chee Sun, were jointly indicted in the said Circuit Court for the crime of murder. They were charged in the indictment with having, on the sixth day of November, 1887, at said county, purposely, and of deliberate and premeditated malice, killed one Lee Yiek. They were tried separately from the other defendants in the indictment, and found guilty of the crime as charged. The said Chung Ling, or Ching Ling, as he seems frequently to have been called, was also tried and convicted. An appeal was, however, taken to this court from the judgment of…