State v. Lucas
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Allamakee District Court. The defendant was indicted jointly with Charles Wood and James White for a robbery from the person of R. G. Edwards, perpetrated by assaulting and wounding him with deadly weapons. The defendant was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary. He appeals. The case was before us on a former appeal. See 55 Iowa, 321.
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
i. chimikAi. eieucy oYevitam conviction. I. It is insisted that the evidence is not sufficient to support the verdict. R. G. Edwards, in substance, testified that he was watchman for Hemmingway, Barclay & Co., who were running a steam saw mill, and had a safe in a little brick office not far from the mill. That about three o’clock on the morning of August 4, 1879, whilst he was out examining the logs and looking to see that all was right, two men, one armed with a club and the other with a revolver’, assaulted him; that the one armed with a revolver, whom he supposed!to be Lucas, the…
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