State v. Johnson

I. In the morning of the 3d day of October, *3951884, William McG-onigle was found in an outhouse attached to a tavern in Council Bluffs in a nearly insensible condition. He was almost nude. His clothing, or parts of it, were found in the outhouse, but no money or property of any considerable value was found upon his person or his clothing. There were marks of a violent blow upon his head, which w'as of such character as to account for his insensible condition. The marks of another blow were discovered upon his shoulder. He lived in Woodbine, where he kept a hotel, and went to Council Bluffs…