State v. Roscum
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Moines District Court. — Hon. James D, Smyth, Judge. Indictment charges defendant with malicious mischief in pulling up and severing from the land of one Anderson thirty-sis peach trees and five apple trees. There was a verdict of guilty, and judgment imposing fine and imprisonment, from which defendant appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
*332i' evidence indictment: misconduct. *331Upon the trial the state placed one Leake upon the witness stand, and offered to prove by him that in the fall of the year 1900 he lost several geese, and afterward “saw geese exactly like them” on the farm of the defendant. This testimony being ruled out, the state further offered to prove by one Hunt other alleged facts of the same character. Objection to this offer being also sustained, a third witness — one Becker— was produced, by whom it was proposed to give evidénce upon “a similar charge.” These repeated attempts to bring before the jury irrelevant…
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- State v. WaltersSupreme Court of Iowa · 1877
- State v. FitchetteSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
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