State v. Anderson

LARSON, Justice.

A county attorney’s information was filed May 23, 1967, charging Clifford Vernon Anderson, the defendant, with the crime of breaking and entering in violation of section 708.8 of the Code of 1966. Subsequent to a plea of not guilty and trial by jury, defendant was convicted and on June 30, 1967, was sentenced to the Iowa State Penitentiary for a term not to exceed ten years.

The record discloses that in the early morning hours of April 9, 1967, there was a break-in at Herman and Dick’s Sport Shop in Waterloo, Iowa. A witness, Willard Forbes, testified he was driving past that…