State v. Moon

The assault charged was against Delbert Stewart, eighty-three, husband of Esther Stewart, sixty-five, a sister of defendant, sixty-one, all of whom lived in a small residence in Des Moines, the title to which was in the defendant and Mrs. Stewart, as joint tenants with title to vest in the surviving grantee. Defendant lived in two rooms separated by a hall from the three rooms occupied by the Stewarts. There was a bath and toilet room used in common. Their relations and association were not pleasant and, according to defendant, were aggravated by a third sister, Mable Orr, fifty-nine. There…