State v. Feltes
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque District Court. The defendant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree, and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years. He appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
i. chimin'al law: evidence: confession when intoxicated. — I. The defendant is charged with having murdered his own son, Peter Eeltes, about eleven or twelve years of age. The boy disappeared the last of April, ^ _ . 1876, and was not seen again alive. The corpse of a child of apparently about that age was disinterred near the defendant’s farm, in the northern part of *496Delaware county, in June, 1877. It was found in a shallow grave, without a coffin, in a field that had been cultivated the preceding year. Such changes had taken place in it by decomposition that it was not possible to identify…
2Cited by29 opinions
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