State v. Morphy
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Louisa District Court. The defendant was indicted tor • murder m the second degree. He was charged with having cut and wounded one B. B. Watts upon the head with a knife on the 7th day of October, 1870, of which wounds the said Watts thereafter died. The defendant was tried by a jury and found guilty. From the judgment and sentence upon the verdict the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
1. evidence : expei-ts. I. From the evidence, as embodied in the transcript, we learn that the crime charged was committed j ust after ni ght-fall; th at the defendant, in a state of partial intoxication, went to the meat market kept by the deceased and began an altercation with him; the defendant ivas soon ordered to leave, and as he stepped out, the door was closed upon him and bolted by the wife of the deceased; the defendant then turned and kicked the door open, whereupon the deceased knocked him down, and, in the struggle which ensued, the deceased received a wound in the temple, by a…
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