State v. Sopher
Supreme Court of Iowa
Afjpeal from Mahaska District Court. DeeeNDANt was convicted of murder in the ■ first degree, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life, in accord with the verdict of the jury fixing the punishment. He now appeals to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeoK, J.
I. The defendant was convicted of the murder of his father, Moses IT. Sopher, Sr. The evidence tends to establish the following facts: The deceased, defendant, and another man, named Dunn, in June, 1884, visited in company a village in the neighborhood of the residence of deceased. They rode together in a spring wagon. The defendant was then about twenty-one years of age, and married; the father, about forty-two. While in the village they all drank intoxicating liquors, and two of them carried with them away from the town bottles containing the same kind of liquor. They were under the…
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