STATE v. BATTLE

No. 54879.

199 N.W.2d 70 (1972)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. George BATTLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 29, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan Stamatelos, West Des Moines, for appellant.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., C. Joseph Coleman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ray Fenton, County Atty., for appellee.


MOORE, Chief Justice.

Defendant, George Battle, appeals from conviction and sentence for the crime of being a bootlegger, as defined in Code section 123.59. We affirm.

The evidence adduced at trial disclosed that on September 18, 1970, Robert Kessler, a Creston police officer, was assigned to the Des Moines Police Department as an undercover agent. Late that night he was sent out to attempt to buy liquor from a bottlegger. After picking up three women, one...

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