State v. Mecum
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Greene District Court. — Hon, G. W. Paine, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of having in the night time, unlawfully, burglariously, and feloniously entered the dwelling house of one Henry Drake, with intent to commit a public offense, to-wit, the crime of adultery.
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, C. J.
I. The evidence shows without conflict that on the night of June 28, 1893, the defendant (then a married man) entered the dwelling house of one Henry Drake, without the consent of said Drake, through a window into a bedroom on the lower floor of said dwelling house; that said bedroom was then occupied by one Jennie Bott, a married woman, who was living apart from her husband, and that between ten and eleven o’clock that night the defendant and said Jennie Bott were found in said room, undressed and in bed together, and the defendant’s shoes were found near a fence seventy-five to one hundred…
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