State v. Dunn

Si-ierwin, J.- —

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*2222 *221On the day that the murder was committed, the. defendant herein, with his co-defendant in the indictment and others, were together near the east end of the Chicago & North-Western Railway switch tracks in the city of Marshalltown. They were drinking beer there, and the evidence shows that the defendant and John Gray were both at the time intoxicated. Shortly before Joseph Williams was killed, two young girls had passed over the railroad tracks near where these parties were, and there met and had some difficulty with two or three other girls. During this difficulty the…