Buteaux v. Bennett

— On September 12, 1961, petitioner Dale Milton Buteaux appeared before the District Court of Polk County with his attorney and entered a plea of guilty to the crime of rape as charged by a county attorney’s information. He waived formal arraignment, any objections to the form and substance of the information, waived time, and asked for the immediate pronouncement of sentence. His plea was accepted by the judge and defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa, Iowa, for a period of seventy-five years, as provided in section 698.1, Code of Iowa, 1958. He was…