68 Iowa 61 | Iowa | 1885
II. It is shown by the testimony that the defendant, who is twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, is a nephew of Mrs. Betsinger, and came to live in the family at her request, about five years before the shooting. Mrs. Betsinger is fifty-six years old, and her husband sixty-two. There was a disagreement between them, and the defendant took the side of his aunt. He was guilty of violence toward the husband, and,
III. In our opinion, the jury were authorized to find that defendant was accessory to the crime. Certainly it cannot be said that there is such an absence of evidence to establish his guilt as will authorize us to interfere.
Affirmed.