State v. Keeler
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from. Dubuque District Cou/rt. The defendant was indicted for the murder of a negro, whose name was to the jurors unknown. He was acquitted, but upon the trial certain errors intervened, as is claimed by the State, and that these may be pointed out is the object of the present appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWright, J.
1. eyidenoe : practice. —I. The State insists that the court below committed two errors. The first relates to the admission of alleged improper testimony. As to this it is only necessary to say, that while the question asked the witness is given, the cmswer is not. The correctness or incorrectness of the ruling depends entirely upon the answer, and, as we do not know what this was, we are, of course, not prepared to say that in its admission there was error. Mays v. Deaver, 1 Iowa, 216, same point, Speers v. Fortner, 6 id. 553; Hanan v. Hale, 7 id. 153; Willey v. Hall, 8 id. 62. The record…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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