State v. Jackson

The defendant is a Negro, 36 years of age at the time of the events referred to herein. On the evening of July 13, 1958, Joseph Dixon, age 18, and Rita Jeane Ficke, 15, were seated in an automobile bearing dealer’s license plates, near Carter Lake. They had driven around Omaha for a time and about 9:30 parked on a road near the lake. Carter Lake, although lying on the west side of the Missouri River adjacent to Omaha, is a part of the State of Iowa and for governmental purposes of Pottawattamie County.

After Dixon and Miss Ficke had been parked for about 45 minutes, the defendant appeared,…