State v. Ebelsheiser

Forty-three errors are assigned covering nearly twenty, printed pages. They are argued in twenty-six divisions. They overlap and repeat and as usual all do not merit the same consideration.

Defendant was convicted of second-degree murder of his sister Dorothy’s husband, Earl Robertson. The Robertsons and Mrs. Robertson’s widowed mother, Mary Ebelsheiser (eighty-seven), lived on the Ebelsheiser home farm a mile or two south of Hedrick in Wapello County. For convenience we call it the “Robertson” home. The widow-Ebelsheiser owned a life estate in it. Dorothy’s sister, Mary Roop, lived in…