State v. Dooley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Adams District Coart. — Hon. H. M* Townee, Judge. The defendant was charged by indictment with the-crime of murder, was tried by jury, found guilty of murder in the first degree, and the punishment designated in the verdict was death. From the judgment rendered on the verdict, fixing the date of his execution on the sixteenth day of June, 1893, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
At about 7 o’clock in the morning of May 11, 1892, W. H. Coons, went from his home, which was between one half and three quarters of a mile southwest of the town of Prescott, leaving there his wife, Lucinda: his daughter, Nellie, ten years of age; and his nephew, the defendant, sixteen years of age. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon of the next-day, he returned, and found the house closed and locked. He succeeded in entering it, and found lying on a bed the lifeless bodies of his wife and daughter. They had been murdered, and appearances indicated that they had been dead from twenty-four to…
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