Supreme Court of Missouri February 23, 1923 (State v. Baird)

lead-opinion

The Prosecuting Attorney of Stone County, by information filed on the ____ day of July, 1921, charged defendant and Gip Webster with murder in the first degree. On a change of venue to Christian County, defendant was, on the 16th day of September, 1921, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, for that, on March 9, 1921, he mortally wounded, by a pistol shot, James A.