State v. Dickson

Two formal pleas were entered by the defendant to the instant indictment, to wit: (1) not guilty; (2) former acquittal. The latter involves a proposition upon which the defendant predicates reversible error, and is entitled to first consideration, as it is primary and controlling.

The record discloses that, on the same day that the defendant Dickson committed the assault giving rise to the indictment, a verified information based on the same transaction was filed by the county attorney of Davis County in the office of Justice of the Peace Baumgarten, in Bloomfield, Iowa, accusing the defendant…