State v. Rutledge

December 15, 1948, at 7:30 a.m. the body of Byron Hattman, of St. Louis, Missouri, was discovered on the floor of room 729, occupied by him in the Roosevelt Hotel, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The corpse was lying on its chest, just inside the entryway and partly alongside the bed, the feet were crossed and the arms were pulled np behind the body and crossed on its back. The body was lying partially on a topcoat. The right sleeve of the suit coat was off the arm and shoulder and was turned inside out. There were a number of bloodstains in the public hallway near the door entering the room and inside…