State v. Westcott
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Gerro Gordo District Court. — - Hon. Clifford P. Smith, Judge. Defendant was indicted for the crime of murder. Upon trial to a jury lie was convicted of manslaughter, and from 'the judgment imposed on the verdict he appeals. — ■
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The state claims that the defendant struck and threw or pushed one George Logue, a barber, through a window of his shop in the second story of a building in the town of Hanlanton, resulting eventually in the death of him, the said Logue. Aside from a confession said to have been made by the defendant, wherein he stated, among other things, that he had trouble with Logue; that Logue was beating him with a chair, and that he struck Logue with his fist or with a quart whisky bottle, and knocked him out through a window — the evidence is wholly circumstantial, and in and of itself insufficient to…
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