State v. Stoddard

STUART, Justice.

Defendant has appealed from the judgment and sentence entered on his plea of guilty to the crime of uttering a forged instrument in violation of section 718.2, Code of Iowa claiming the record and information obtained by the trial court in the pre-sentence report raised such doubt as to defendant’s mental capacity that the trial court (1) should not have accepted his plea of guilty without obtaining additional information, or (2) could not have accepted the plea of guilty without submitting the question of defendant’s sanity to a jury under section 783.1, Code of Iowa, which…