State v. Usher

The defendant shot and killed William Garrity on the 26th day of May, 1903. Garrity had worked for the defendant at different times and for different terms during the four or five years immediately preceding his death, and practically all of the time from the middle of March of that year. There had never been any serious trouble between them, and the evidence shows their feelings towards each other to have been that of friends up to the time of Garrity’s death. Garrity went to Oedar Kapids about the 10th of May, where he remained until the day before he was killed, and the evidence tended to…