State v. Wimbush

Defendant, James Edward Wimbush, was indicted by the Polk County grand jury for the crime of breaking and entering Washington Irving Junior High School in Des Moines in violation of Code section 708.8, to which he entered a plea of not guilty. On trial to a jury he was found guilty. June 14, 1966, he was sentenced to imprisonment in the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa for a period not to exceed ten years. From this judgment and sentence defendant appeals.

Defendant assigns and argues two propositions for reversal: (1) the evidence was insufficient to establish a jury question and (2) the trial…