State v. Billings
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. — How. JOHN J. Net, Judge. The defendant was indicted for the murder of Willis S. Kingsley on the twenty-first day of December, 1887, in Bremer county. The indictment was tried in Bremer county in 1888, and a verdict was returned of murder of the second degree, and from the judgment thereon, of life imprisonment, the defendant appealed, and the judgment was reversed, and a new trial ordered.
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Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. — How. JOHN J. Net, Judge. The defendant was indicted for the murder of Willis S. Kingsley on the twenty-first day of December, 1887, in Bremer county. The indictment was tried in Bremer county in 1888, and a verdict was returned of murder of the second degree, and from the judgment thereon, of life imprisonment, the defendant appealed, and the judgment was reversed, and a new trial ordered. The venue of the case was changed to Black Hawk county, where the case was again tried, with a like verdict and judgment, .and the defendant again appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGrawger, J.
1. murder: cir-evidence-al new trial. I. Willis S. Kingsley was, on the twenty-first of December, 1887, an attorney at law, and county attorney for Bremer county. His °®-ce was the city of Waverly, on the north side of Bremer avenue. It consisted of two rooms, being a front and rear room, connected *101by folding doors. These rooms were on a second, floor, with a door leading from each to a hall and stairway. On the same floor, in the rear of the office, were two rooms occupied by Dr. 0. P. Byers. About six o’clock on the evening of December 21, 1887, Kingsley was found in a dying condition on…
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