State v. Allen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dickinson District Court. — Hon. W. B. Quarton, Judge. The defendant was indicted for the crime of seduction, was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of two years, and adjudged to pay the costs of prosecution, from which sentence and judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
1Opinion of the CourtKinne, J.
*91 *8I. We are confronted with a record of over four hundred pages, in which not a single assignment of errors is to be found. • Under the statute, in such cases we are required to “examine, the record, and, without regard to technical errors, or defects which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties, render such judgment on the record as the law demands.” Code, section 4538. We have held in criminal cases, where no argument or assignment of errors was filed, that we would not enter upon a discussion of the case; that in such cases all we were required to do was to examine the record,…
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