Supreme Court of Arkansas December 24, 1921 (Wells v. State)

Wood, J.

The appellant was convicted in the Drew Circuit Court of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be electrocuted, on an indictment brought by the grand jury of that county, which, omitting formal parts, reads as follows: “That the said James Wells, in the county and State aforesaid, on or about the 18th day of May, 1921, did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and of his malice