State v. Gardner

— On June 24, 1952, defendant was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle on the public streets of Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, while in an intoxicated condition. On a preliminary hearing on June 29, 1952, he was bound over to the grand jury, which returned an indictment on September 15, 1952, charging him with so operating a motor vehicle, as a third offense. With respect to two previous convictions, the indictment charged: that on or about August 1, 1938, defendant entered a plea of guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in the District Court of…