State v. Townsend
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Decatur District Oou/rt. The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life, lie appeals to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtAoams, J.
1. MURDEBin greeYwuiñg dictment. I. The defendant moved in arrest of judgment on the alleged ground that the indictment does not charge murder in the first degree. The indictment charges that “Leroy Townsend, on the twenty-eighth day of June, 1883, * * * in and upon one E. P. Ware, unlawfully, feloniously, deliberately, premeditatedly and of malice aforethought, did commit an assault with a deadly weapon * * * then and there held in the hands of said Leroy Townsend, and then and there the said Leroy Townsend did, with specific intent to kill and murder him, the said E. P. Ware, unlawfully,…
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