State v. Hofer

Defendant Hofer, age thirty-six, and one Larson were prisoners in the men’s reformatory at Anamosa. Each morning they were taken in an automobile by John Hinz, foreman of the prison cheese factory, to work there. When the day’s work was done Hinz returned the prisoners to the reformatory. They had planned to escape while. Hinz was returning them to prison on June 12th. The plan was that Hofer was to ride in the rear seat of the automobile, would strike Hinz in the head with a hammer, and Larson, in the front seat, would then drive the car.

■ Defendant concealed a hammer on. his person when he…