State v. Novak

I. Prior to February 3, 1897, the defendant, Frank A. Novak, was a part owner of a stock of goods in a store at Walford, Iowa. He was a married man and carried upon his life an insurance of twenty-seven thous- and dollars, mostly payable to' his wife. On the afternoon and during the evening of February 2d, hei was in company with one Edward Murray, some of the time in a saloon, and in the evening quite late, in defendant’s store. That night the store of the defendant burned, and in the ruins was found what is supposed to be the body of Edward Murray. During that night defendant disappeared…