Cave, Keener v. Haynes

On the 7th of July, 1934, the plaintiffs separately pleaded guilty to an indictment charging entering a savings bank with intent to hold up and rob, in violation of section 13002 of the 1931 Code of Iowa. On the same date each defendant pleaded guilty, sentence was pronounced “that the defendants and each of them be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa, for a term of Thirty Years.” They were transported to the penitentiary at Fort Madison, and entered on the books of that institution as sentenced “to life imprisonment”. The purpose of this action is to command the change…