State v. Rankin

STUART, Justice.

A Lee County jury convicted defendant of the crime of incest in violation of section 704.1, Code of Iowa. He was sentenced to a term not to exceed 25 years in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison. He assigns four errors on appeal. We affirm.

*171I. In prosecutions for adultery, incest and statutory rape evidence of similar acts is admissible and may be considered as bearing upon the disposition and inclination of defendant to commit the act with which he is charged. State v. Beltz (1938), 225 Iowa 155, 159-161, 279 N.W. 386, 388-389; State v. Terry (1925), 199 Iowa 1221, 1228,…