State v. McNeal

LARSON, Justice.

Pursuant to a grand jury indictment of April 30, 1968, charging defendant Donald Evan McNeal with the crime of riotous conduct — injury to person or property, in violation of section 743.9 of the 1966 Code, trial was had on May 8, 1968. A jury verdict of guilty was returned and, when judgment sentencing him to the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa for a term not to exceed five years was entered on May 31st, he appealed.

It appears that defendant, along with several Albia young men, attacked and beat five young men from Centerville, Iowa, as they emerged from the Blue Bird Cafe in…