STATE v. GEBHART

No. 51578.

134 N.W.2d 906 (1965)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. William GEBHART, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 4, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mead & Scieszinski, Wilton Junction, for appellant.

Lawrence F. Scalise, Atty. Gen., of Iowa, Don R. Bennett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Garry D. Woodward, Sp. Asst. County Atty., and Harvey G. Allbee, Jr., Muscatine County Atty., for appellee.


THOMPSON, Justice.

The poet who wrote "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be" surely did not have the defendant in the instant case in mind. At 91, an age when the few who get that far are thought to have reached a time of peace and wisdom, he was accused of the wrongful killing of his wife, Sarah Gebhart, and her sister, Anna Yarbough. Each woman was killed by several gunshot wounds; and since there was no one present at the time of the killings except the...

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