State v. Alexander

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pollock, J.:

On Sunday evening, November 3, 1901, persons returning from church services in the city of Hiawatha about nine o’clock discovered one T. C. Horr sitting upon the steps of the Central school building in that city, in a semiconscious condition, bruised, wounded, and bleeding. Further investigation disclosed the place where the injury had been received ; that the wounds had apparently been made with a blunt instrument; and that a lady’s watch and chain which he had carried were missing from his person. It further appeared that Horr had arrived…