Legal Opinion

State v. Robbins

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 15, 1898PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from Lee District Court. — Hon. Henry Bank, Jr., Judge. This case is by leave submitted on a typewritten abstract, which shows as follows: An indictment charging the defendant with murder in the first degree, signed: “A true bill. P. M. Mathews, Foreman of the Grand Jury,” — was returned and filed October 11, 1897. October 13, 1897, the defendant pleaded not guilty. R. M. Marshall was appointed to defend, and by consent the case was continued.

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Appeal from Lee District Court. — Hon. Henry Bank, Jr., Judge. This case is by leave submitted on a typewritten abstract, which shows as follows: An indictment charging the defendant with murder in the first degree, signed: “A true bill. P. M. Mathews, Foreman of the Grand Jury,” — was returned and filed October 11, 1897. October 13, 1897, the defendant pleaded not guilty. R. M. Marshall was appointed to defend, and by consent the case was continued. At the December term, 1897, trial was had, and on December 30 the jury returned its verdict, as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant…

1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.

I. On the twenty-seventh day of September, 1898, the appellant served and filed an additional abstract, which shows that on September 20, 1898, Henry Bank, Jr., J., who tried the case and heard the said application, certified that the affidavit of defendant set out in the certificate, and which is the same shown in the abstract as quoted above, was all the evidence introduced at the hearing of said application. To said additional abstract is appended the certificate of the attorney for appellant that said additional abstract, together with the original abstract, “constitute the evidence, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. WaddleSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. State v. HudsonSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1935
  2. State v. WrightSupreme Court of Iowa · 1900
  3. State Ex Rel. Teeter v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada Ex Rel. County of ClarkNevada Supreme Court · 1947
  4. State v. GoodsellSupreme Court of Iowa · 1907
  5. State v. ShafferSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908

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