Supreme Court of Arkansas April 15, 1907 (Worthem v. State)

Battre, J.

At the December, 1906, term of the Mississippi Circuit Court, Chickasawba District, a regularly impaneled grand jury returned the following indictment into court:

“The grand jury of Mississippi County, -Chickasawba District, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse Lee Worthem of the crime of murder in the first degree, committed as follows, towit: The said.....