State v. Winter
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Plymototh District Court. The defendant was accused of the crime of murder in the first degree, committed in tbe killing of one Hugh Moist. ITe was tried by a jury, who found bim guilty of manslaugli-ter, and the distinct court sentenced him to a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary, and from that judgment he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The deceased and defendant lived on adjoining
farms. Previous to the occurrence in question, they had had difficulty, and on one occasion they engaged in a personal conflict, in which defendant was worsted. On the occasion in question, deceased was riding on the highway near defendant’s house, when defendant accosted him, and asked him for a receipt for certain money which he had previously paid him as road taxes, the deceased being the supervisor of highways in that district. A quarrel arose between them, in which each applied insulting and opprobrious epithets to the other. Defendant seized…
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