State v. Wright
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Appanoose District Court. — Hon. M. A. Roberts, Judge. The defendant was tried on an indictment charging murder in tbe first degree. He was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals from a judgment thereon.
1Opinion of the CourtSi-ierwin, J.
The indictment charged the defendant with murder in the first degree. Under the general plea of not guilty, the special defenses of insanity produced by epilepsy and of accidental shooting were interposed. The record before us is very large, and the assignments of error which are argued number some 75 or 80, a large proportion of which relate to rulings upon the introduction of the testimony of a great number of witnesses. It is hardly possible to separately discuss each of these rulings, and, in our disposition of this branch of the case, we will group them as far as possible, but will…
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