State v. Kobylasz

Defendant, in 1949, operated a- taxi service in Winterset, Iowa. The prosecuting witness, Mary Wells, was an employee of the Ben Franklin Store and had been employed at various places during the six years she had resided in Winterset. She had used defendant’s taxi service at various times including one trip to Missouri, about one hundred twenty miles. She admits “I * * * sometimes requested that Jan drive the cab, but I didn’t make that request every time.”

*1163She testifies that on the night in question (October 3, 1919, “at approximately 10 in the evening”) she called defendant to take her to…