State v. Weems
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. S. F. Balliet, Judge. Indictment for murder. There was a verdict of guilty, and a judgment imposing the death penalty. The defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
I. On the nineteenth day of May, 1894, one L. B. Ridpath, a passenger conductor while on his way from his heme to his train, in the city of Des Moines, was shot and hilled. This defendant, John Hamil, and John Kraut, were on the first day of *429June, 1894, jointly indicted for the murder, the offense being charged in the first degree. The cause was as Jo the defendant Weems called for trial July 9, 1894, resulting in a verdict of guilty of the crime as charged, and the jury recommended the death penalty.
A few facts may appropriately be stated in this connection. On the night that Ridpath was…
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