Reeves v. Lainson

It appears without dispute that: The petitioner was charged by a county attorney’s information, filed in Wood-bury County, Iowa, with the crime of burglary committed by unlawfully breaking and entering a building in said county and unlawfully opening a safe therein by means of an explosive; to this charge the plaintiff pleaded guilty, and waived time for pronouncing sentence, and the district court of said county rendered judgment of guilty as charged and sentenced him to forty years in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison; a mittimus was issued committing him to said penitentiary, where he…