State v. Trogden

Gary Noel Trogden was convicted of the crime of robbery with aggravation and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at Fort Madison for a term of 25 years. He assigns but one error, i.e., that the State failed to produce any competent evidence to corroborate the testimony given by an accomplice, Joseph Lee Brownell. The assignment has no merit.

The appellant, a pauper, requested and was permitted to file a copy of the trial transcript in lieu of the usual abstract of record. It contains almost a thousand pages, much of it not material to the issue raised in this appeal. We glean…