Legal Opinion

State v. Bosworth

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided May 14, 1915PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Appeal from Mahaska District Court. — Hon. John F. Talbott, Judge. Indictment charging defendant with maliciously and unlawfully injuring, removing and destroying a street car belonging to an electric railway, to wit, the Oskaloosa Traction & Light Company, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. Defendant was convicted and appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtSalinger, J.

1. Appeal and error : motion for directed verdict: refusal : waiver of ruling. I. Error is assigned on the overruling of defendant’s motion to direct a verdict. The motion was made at the close of the testimony for the State, and after its overruling, the defendant introduced his testimony. The motion was never renewed. 'In this state of the record, we cannot review the assignment. This is so despite that the motion for new trial asserts that the motion to direct verdict should have been sustained.

2. Criminal law : alibi: erroneous application. II. The acts upon which the indictment was based…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Hicks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. People v. BondCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1910
  3. State v. DonovanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1883
  4. State v. NorthrupSupreme Court of Iowa · 1878
  5. State v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1878

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3Cited by28 opinions

  1. State v. DunneSupreme Court of Iowa · 1944
  2. State v. KramerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1961
  3. State v. KneedySupreme Court of Iowa · 1942
  4. Ford v. DilleySupreme Court of Iowa · 1916
  5. State v. KittelsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1969

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