State v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monona District Court. — Hon. Gf. W. Wakefield, Judge. February 13, 1890, an indictment was returned charging the defendant with the crime of larceny, as defined in chapter 30 of Acts of the Twenty-first General Assembly, to which he pleaded not guilty, February 15, 1890, and upon which he was tried by a jury April 28, 1890, and convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, from which he appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Given. J.
I. When the case was called for trial the following proceedings were had: “The plaintiff moves 1. Indictment: clerical error: correction on motion. court, in the case of the State of Iowa v. F. W. Brooks, to correct that portion in the beginning of the indictment — the same reads as it now stands, ‘The said F. W. Brooks, on or *368about tbe fifteenth day of November, 1890’ — so that the same-shall read as follows: ‘That the said F. W. Brooks, on or about the fifteenth day of November, 1888.’ The defendant objects, for the reason that it does not appear that the mistake is a clerical…
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