State v. Clouser
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mills District Court. Indictment, charging that the defendant murdered William Doran. Trial by jury. Yerdict guilty, and that the defendant be imprisoned for life in the penitentiary, and judgment was accordingly entered. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevees, J.
The indictment was found and presented in October, 1883. On the morning of the eighteenth day of August, 1878, William Doran and one Tynan were found dead on or near the track of the Kansas City and Council Bluffs Railroad, about five miles from the town of Bartlett. *314The evidence tended to show that they were both killed by being shot with a gun in the hands of some one, loaded with powder and buckshot. One McCrary had been indicted, tried and convicted for the same crime, and was imprisoned in the penitentiary at the time the defendant was indicted and tried. Tie was introduced as a witness…
2Cited by2 opinions
- State v. ClouserSupreme Court of Iowa · 1887
- Steinman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1911