STATE v. HARLESS

No. 49190.

86 N.W.2d 210 (1957)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. James Elwood HARLESS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawyer, Lawyer & Ray and Don Hise, Des Moines, and Joseph L. Phelan, Fort Madison, for appellant.

Norman A. Erbe, Atty. Gen., Don C. Swanson, Hugh V. Faulkner, Asst. Attys. Gen., and R. N. Johnson, County Atty., Fort Madison, for appellee.


GARFIELD, Justice.

A jury found defendant guilty of the crime of attempting to break and enter in violation of section 708.10, Code, 1954, I.C. A., and of being an habitual criminal as defined by section 747.5. From judgment thereon defendant has appealed.

I. Appellant first contends the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction of attempting to break and enter. There is clearly sufficient proof someone attempted to break and enter Greenwald's Supermarket...

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