State v. Brandt

Robert L. Brandt, the defendant, was indicted by the grand jury of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and therein charged with the crime of breaking and entering. It alleged, in substance, that on March 19, 1949, the defendant broke into and entered an eating place located in an outlying country community. He entered a plea of “not guilty”. Upon trial the jury returned a verdict of “guilty”. A motion for new trial was overruled and the defendant was sentenced to a term of ten years in the men’s reformatory at Anamosa. He has appealed.

The appellant, at the time of the trial, was nineteen years of age…