STATE v. TRIPLETT

No. 48864.

79 N.W.2d 391 (1956)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Ernest TRIPLETT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas O. Tacy, Council Bluffs, for appellant.

Dayton Countryman, Atty. Gen., Raphael R. R. Dvorak and Dudley C. Lowry, Asst. Attys. Gen., William S. Sturges, County Atty., Le Mars, and Robert E. Beebe, Special Prosecutor, Sioux City, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Chief Justice.

Jimmy Bremmers, an eight-year old boy, disappeared from his home in Sioux City about 8 p. m. on August 31, 1954. His badly decomposed body was found in a field in Plymouth County on September 29th following. Medical testimony at the trial showed that the cause of death was two severe wounds in the head, each of which indented the skull. These wounds, according to the expert testimony, could not have been made by a blow from a hand or fist...

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