Supreme Court of Missouri December 15, 1908 (State v. Sassaman)

FOX, P. J.

This cause is now pending before this court upon defendant’s appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Johnson county, Missouri, convicting him of murder of the first degree.

On October 5,1904, Anna Z. Bentley made affidavit before a justice of the peace of Johnson county, charging Robert Sassaman, the defendant, with murder in the first degree, for the killing of one Carl Miller.