Petar Mišić (general)

He was a prominent opponent of the Black Hand and the president of the court panel at the Salonica trial in 1917.

[3] Petar Mišić was born on 21 March (or 2 April according to the Gregorian calendar) in 1863 in Rajac, Serbia.

He was in the engineering battalion until 1888, and from 1888 to 1891 he attended the Nikolaev General Staff Academy in Imperial Russia.

At the time retired lieutenant general Aleksandar Mašin (Queen Draga's brother) entered the barracks of the 12th Regiment to take command when Mišić's battalion arrived behind the scheduled time, so the other conspirators went into risky action without his immediate support.

In the meantime, the conspirators searched the palace and eventually found the royal couple in the early morning of 11 June 1903.

King Alexander and Queen Draga were shot and their bodies mutilated and disembowelled and, according to eyewitness accounts, thrown from a second-floor window of the palace onto piles of garden manure.

King Alexander and Queen Draga were buried in the crypt of St. Mark's Church, Belgrade.

According to King Peter, he was so reckless that he treated him as an equal, so he told him that he should be content to get so much money for his civilian list.

In addition, Nikola Pašić won over Mišić and thus managed to break up a group of older conspirators.

He stood out at the end of 1908 at a secret session of the Assembly, when he asked very awkward questions to Defense Minister Stepa Stepanović, who was then forced to resign.

Mišić was dissatisfied with the new situation and King Peter Karađorđević, that in 1909 he declared his overthrow and bringing the English prince.

He appeared in the assembly on 9 January 1912, with an interpellation and claims about the existence of the Black Hand, and asked for something to be done.

In that group were Petar Živković, Josif Kostić, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Miroslav Milisavljević and others.

[8] As the president of the lower military court sentenced Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis and eight of his comrades to death.