State v. Crafton
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes, Judge. ' The defendant was indicted and tried for the crime of murder in the first degree, and convicted of murder in the second degree. He was adjudged to be confined in the penitentiary at Anamosa for the term of fifteen years, and from that judgment this appeal is prosecuted .
1Opinion of the Court
Kinne, J., „ , venuff iocai síSciency of showing. I. Mabel Swartz was, on the night of March 28, 1892, in a house of prostitution, in the city of Des Moines, killed by the contents of a revolver, which was discharged while in the hands of, and being manipulated by, the defendant. The grand jury returned an indictment against the defendant on May 9, 1892, and on May 12, 1892, the defendant waived arraignment, and on the twentieth of the same month entered a plea of not guilty. On the same day he filed a petition and motion, supported by affidavits, for a change of place of trial. The petition…
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