State v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jefferson District Court. — D. M. Anderson, Judge. The defendant was convicted of assault with intent to rob, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
1. Robbery: assault with intent to rob: elements of “assault”: evidence. ' I. In the evening of May 22, 1914, Harold Tropp and Edwin M. Cox went to the Court Hotel in Fair-field, where they observed the proprietor, Dunlevy, asleep on a cot in a back room. Tropp took off his shoes and, armed with a leather sap and a loaded revolver, moved quietly to the head of the cot, when Dunlevy, feeling the presence of someone in the room, sprang to his feet. Tropp ran out, with Dunlevy after him. He stumbled or was knocked down, and-Dunlevy undertook to hold him, when Cox, who had waited in the wash…
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