State v. Grattan

The victim of the alleged murder was Claude Meade, who was shot by the defendant. The shooting occurred in a barn upon the fair grounds of Winneshiek county. The defendant claims that the shooting was done in defense of his grandson, whom Meade was pursuing with a pitchfork, and whom he drove out of the barn at the points of the pitchfork. Meade was engaged in the business of training trotting horses fon others, and stabled his horses in the barn in question. He was fifty-two years of age. The defendant was eighty-five years of age. He used a .25 caliber pistol, and shot the deceased in the…