State v. Abarr
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ringgold District Court. The defendant was indicted for the crime of manslaughter, and was tried, found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years, and to pay a fine of three hundred dollars. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
i cbiminax. sáíTghter-1" evidence. I. There is no material conflict in the evidence. The deceased, Jonathan P. Babbitt, the defendant, and six or other men, were working together on the highway in their road district in Ringgold county, on the third day of June, 1870. All were then friends and ever had been, so 'far as the evidence discloses. The deceased and defendant were digging in a ditch and were from twenty to thirty feet apart, the former having an ordinary or short handled shovel, and the latter a long handled one. The deceased proposed to trade shovels, remarking that he could do…
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