State v. Arthur
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Pottawattamie District Court.— Hon. A. B. Thorneel, Judge. Defendant was indicted with one John Bernstein, charged with the crime of breaking and entering a bank building in the town of Treynor, in Pottawattamie county. Defendant alone pleaded not guilty, and, being convicted, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Prom this sentence he appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
„ 1. Territorial jurisdictwn: judicial notice. I. No question is made as to tbe fact that the Treynor Savings Bank was broken and entered, as charged in the indictment; but one of the objections raised for defendant is that there is no evidence that the venue of the crime was in Pottawattamie county west of the west line of range 40 so as to bring it within the jurisdiction of the court in which the case was tried; for Pottawattamie county is divided into two portions for judicial purposes, and the trial court had only jurisdiction of offenses committed in that portion of the county west of…
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