State v. Kennedy
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque District Court. — Hon. John J. Net, Judge. The defendant was indicted and tried for the crime of murder in the first degree. The jury found him guilty as charged, and determined that he should be punished with death. He was sentenced to be hanged on the first day of March, 1889, and appeals. <
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
On the twenty-sixth day of April, 1887, the dead body of Mary Kennedy, the wife of defendant, was found in a meadow about half a mile from his home, in Dubuque county. Eleven wounds were found upon her face and scalp, and there were bruises on her arms, left hand and scalp and face. The most severe injury was a wound which commenced in front of the right ear, and extended thence under the skin to a point about the middle of the right eyebrow. From a point between the extremities of that wound, near the eye, another wound extended under the skin and under the eye to the nose, where it came…
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