State v. Marcus

— Shortly before nine p. m., November 26, 1947, a seriously injured man was found lying in a paved street in a residential district in Council Bluffs. Apparently he had been struck by a motor vehicle. A short distance to the north were shattered pieces of automobile headlight glass. A police car was called, the scene was inspected and the man was taken to a hospital. The following day the police seeking to learn the identity of the driver of the vehicle visited various automobile repair shops. At one of these they were told a broken headlight had been replaced for defendant about midnight,…