State v. Owens
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Davis District Gourb. — IíoN. II. A. Robeets, J udge. The defendant, Clay Owens, was jointly indicted with. Ed Noble’for the larceny of certain cattle in Davis county, the property of David E. Davies, and on separate trial was found guilty, and a judgment of imprisonment in tbe penitentiary for a term of four years rendered against Mm, from which judgment he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWaterman, J.
I. On the trial had in Davis county, one J. IT. Springer, a resident near Ottumwa, in Wapello county, was examined on behalf of the state, and cross-examined at length on behalf of the defendant. The testimony of this witness is material to the prosecution, and the cross-examination was pressed with much vigor, and evidently 1 with a desire to break the force of his testimony. No witness was called by the defendant to attack his general moral character, nor his general reputation for truth and veracity, yet the state was permitted, over defendant’s objection, to call six witnesses as to the…
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