State v. Brown

MASON, Justice.

A Polk County grand jury returned an indictment charging Theresa Rosalee Brown with larceny of property valued in excess of $20 contrary to section 709.1, Code, 1966. Trial to a jury resulted in a verdict of guilty. Her motions in arrest of judgment, exceptions to instructions and for new trial were overruled and defendant was sentenced to the women’s reformatory for a term not to exceed five years. Code section 709.2.

Defendant seeks reversal of her conviction challenging sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and correctness of the court’s instruction bearing on…