State v. Fox

— Tlie defendant, George Allen Fox, was indicted and tried for the crime of rape in violation of section 698.1, Code of Iowa, 1962. From a jury verdict of guilty and an imposed sentence of fifty years in the state penitentiary he appeals. There is no contention made that the evidence of this horrible crime was not sufficient to sustain the conviction.

The errors assigned, as we understand them, are (1) that inadmissible evidence was received of oral admissions of defendant made in the absence of counsel after arraignment, of a conversation regarding defendant’s refusal to take a lie-detector…