Lockhart v. Smith

Plaintiff, in Linn District Court, pleaded guilty to an information charging a crime committed in Linn Couniy. He waived time and asked immediate sentence which was duly pronounced. He then appealed urging certain defects in the information. See State v. Lockhart, 241 Iowa 638, 39 N.W.2d 589. Upon affirmance on that appeal and issuance and execution of mittimus, he brought this proceeding, claiming for the first time that “the facts upon which the information was predicated * * ® took place in Benton County, if at all, and more than 500 yards from the boundary line between Benton and Linn…