State v. Stubbs
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Moines District Court. The indictment contains two counts. The first charges that the defendant and Jennie Quiekbaum one Lena Schaffer, wilfully and without lawful authority, forcibly and secretly did confine and imprison. The second count charges that said defendants the said Lena Schaffer did forcibly seize, confine and kidnap. There was a jury trial on the plea of not guilty, and the defendant, having been convicted, appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
*2041. criminal law: evidence. *203The prosecuting witness testified that in the evening, about dark, she was seized by a man and woman, *204thrust into a wagon, and therein carried a comparatively short distance to a house, wherein she was confined in a closet until the next evening, when she made her escape. While so confined, and a short time before she escaped, she saw the woman, but she did not see any man, or other person than the woman, while she was confined in the house.
She was unable to identify, when on the stand as á witness, the defendant as the man who seized her. She identified the house in…
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