State v. Mizner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Allamakee District Court. The defendant was tried before a justice of the peace, upon an information charging him with the crime of assault and battery, and was convicted. Tie appealed to the District Court, where the cause was tried before a jury, and he was again convicted. The defendant was fined in the sum of ten dollars, and judgment was entered against him therefor, and for the costs of the prosecution. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
The prosecuting witness, Ida Brumer, in substance testified that the defendant taught a district school in Rossville, and that she commenced attending his school in the forepart of November, 1874. That, on the 22nd day of December, 1874, whilst she was a pupil in defendant’s school, defendant whipped her, in a manner which, from her testimony, appears to be unreasonable- and immoderate. She further testified that, at the time she commenced going to school, which was about the 10th day of November, she told the defendant she was twenty years of age, and that, in fact, she was twenty-one years…
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