State v. Sullivan
Supreme Court of Iowa
Aptpeal from Webster District Court. The defendant, upon an indictment for the murder of Philip McGuire, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for eight years. He brings the case on appeal to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Ch. J.
— I. The homicide in this case, like a very large proportion of crimes of the same character which are before the court, may be very clearly traced to the intoxicated condition of one or both of the parties. The deceased, according to the testimony, at the time he received the wound from the hand of the defendant, and for some time before, during which there had been quarrels between the parties, was nn*143questionably drunk. Defendant was also under the influence of intoxicating liquors, but not to such an extent that his condition would be so readily remarked. The parties had met a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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3Cited by15 opinions
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