Supreme Court of Missouri June 27, 1893 (State v. Phillips)

Sherwood, J.

— The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and her punishment assessed at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary, and she appeals.

The indictment upon which this conviction was had charged that Caleb Brown and Celia A. Phillips did, “on purpose and of their malice aforethought, willfully, deliberately, premediately shoot and kill one ¥m. H.