State v. Hobson

McCORMICK, Justice.

Defendant appeals his conviction by jury and sentence for theft in the third degree in violation of § 714.2(3), The Code. He challenges various trial court proceedings and also attacks the sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm the trial court.

The charge arose out of the alleged theft of aluminum truck bed stakes from a grain company’s semi-trailer truck parked at the Cordes Tire Service in Iowa Falls in the early morning of June 23, 1978.

The questions raised by defendant concern the authority of an assistant attorney general to sign the trial information, the excuse of…