State v. Albertson

H. D. Tipton, the prosecuting witness, lived twelve miles southeast of Sigourney on the east side of a north- and-south highway. His farm buildings were about a block north of the south branch of the Skunk River, which flows easterly across the highway and across, or along the southerly border of, the Tipton farm. As one error relied on by defendant involves the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict it becomes necessary to examine the record, particularly the evidence adduced by the State.

About noon of November 14, 1944, Mr. Tipton, a man sixty-five years old, and his…