McCORMICK, Justice.
This is an appeal from denial of workmen's compensation. It turns upon whether prisoners of the State injured while working in prison industries are covered by the Iowa Workmen's Compensation Act.
Plaintiff was serving a ten-year sentence for forgery in the Men's Reformatory at Anamosa. On May 20, 1969, he was injured while working as a punch press operator in the license plate factory of the prison. Four fingers of his right hand were...
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