State v. Bingaman

According to the record, the defendant-appellant, Lee Bingaman, was indicted in Mills County, Iowa, on December 13, 1927, for unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously leaking “an assault upon Edward Piper * * *, with intent then and there with * * * (a) shotgun * * * unlawfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought to kill and murder the" said Edward Piper.”

The assault, according to the indictment, was made on October 30, 1927. This was the evening before Halloween. Edward Piper, the prosecuting witness, was 15 years of age, and his associates hereinafter referred to were about as old as…