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STATE v. DUNCAN

No. 64531.

312 N.W.2d 519 (1981)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Vincent DUNCAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 25, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerald Feuerbach of Gomez, Feuerbach, May & Pries, Davenport, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Richard L. Cleland and Merle Wilna Fleming, Asst. Attys. Gen., and William E. Davis, Scott County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, UHLENHOPP, McCORMICK, and SCHULTZ, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

If on a single occasion a person burglarizes a marina and a boat in the marina, may the county attorney prosecute the incident as one overall burglary, or must he consider the entries into the marina and the boat as two burglaries? This is the principal problem that confronts us in the present appeal. Cf. State v. Amsden, 300 N.W.2d 882 (Iowa 1981) (similar problem with crime of theft).

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