State v. Gainor
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Plymouth District Court. — Hon. Soott M. Ladd, Judge. The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree. He was tried upon the indictment, and convicted of the crime of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for eight years, from which sentence and judgment he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothbock, J.
I. It is conceded that the defendant shot and killed Samuel Hamilton at about twelve 1. Homicide: justification: self-defense: evidence. o’clock of the night of the twenty-fourth day of November, 1888, at the city of Le Mars, in Plymouth county. Hamilton was at that time acting as a special merchants’ police, by *211and with, the consent of the city council. One Philip Eembe was a constable, and on the night of the homicide he was acting as night police, and was, during the night and up to the time of the tragedy, acting in concert with Hamilton. They were not together all the time, but it…
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