State v. Watson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jefferson District Court. — JHon. Frank W. Eichelberger, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried,' and convicted of the crime of burglary, and appeals from the sentence imposed.' —
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
1 About 1:30 o’clock in the morning of the twenty-second day of November, 1895, two persons broke and entered the depot of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company in the town of Fair-field, Iowa, and robbed two men who were in the ticket office. Defendant was arrested, and, upon trial, convicted of being one of the guilty parties. His main defense was an alibi, and he produced witnesses who testified that he was in the city of Moberly, in the state of Missouri, on the twenty-first and twenty-second days of November, 1895. The jury evidently discredited this testimony, for the trial…
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