38 Iowa 257 | Iowa | 1874
The testimony tended to show that the defendant, having a diseased horse, caused him to be placed and tied upon the track of the railroad, with a view to having the horse killed by the train, and then obtaining a liberal price for him from the railroad company. The only witness tending in any degree to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense was a confessed accomplice. lie was, doubtless, sufficiently corroborated by the testimony of other witnesses tending to show- the commission of the offense and some of the
Reversed.