Legal Opinion

State v. Smith

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 9, 1896PublishedCited by 22 opinions

Appeal from Johnson District Court. — Hon. M. J. Wade, Judge. The defendant was accused of the crime of assault with the intent to commit murder, tried by jury, found guilty, and adj udged to be imprisoned in the state penitentiary at Anamosa, at hard labor, for the term of one year and eight months. From that judgment, he appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.

On the thirteenth day of August, 1895, R. P. Jones, the sheriff of Johnson county, had for service an order, issued by a justice of the peace, for the removal of the defendant, “and store goods and office furniture,” from a certain building in a village of Johnson county. He found the premises described in the order occupied by the defendant and his brother, John T. Smith, with a small stock of medicines and some groceries. When the sheriff made known his business, the defendant, who is a physician, moved the medicines out of the building, but claimed that the groceries belonged to his…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. State v. MunchrathSupreme Court of Iowa · 1889
  2. State v. SheltonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1884
  3. State v. LeeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
  4. State v. WhiteSupreme Court of Iowa · 1876

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. State v. PhillipsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1902
  2. Von Patzoll v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1947
  3. State v. DavesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1966
  4. Rooney v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
  5. State v. MarshallSupreme Court of Iowa · 1928

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