State v. Cross
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mills District Court. In December, 1883, tbe defendant, Dr. E. D. Cross, was indicted by tbe grand jury of Pottawattamie county for the crime of murder in tbe first degree. A change of venue was taken to Mills county, and a trial bad, wbicb resulted in a conviction and sentence of death. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams. J.
On the twenty-fourth day September, 1883, about six o’clock in the evening, Dr. A. B. McKune, a resident of Council Bluffs, was killed upon one of the streets of that city, within sight of several persons, by a revolver held in the hand of the defendant. The evidence tended to show that the deceased and the defendant had for some time been enemies. That the defendant pnrposely killed the deceased we do not understand has ever been denied by him, but he contends that it was in self-defense. A large number of errors have been assigned upon the admission of evidence offered by the…
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