State v. Cobb

LeGRAND, Justice.

Upon defendant’s plea of guilty, he was sentenced under section 902.9, The Code, and committed to the custody of the Department of Social Services to serve a term of not to exceed ten years for the crime of sexual abuse in the third degree committed in violation of section 709.4(4), The Code. He appealed, and we affirm. All statutory references are to the 1979 Code.

Defendant admitted having had sexual intercourse with his fifteen-year old stepdaughter. His complaint on appeal is not with the plea, but with the sentence. In pronouncing judgment the trial court made the…