STATE v. LEE

No. 56479.

222 N.W.2d 471 (1974)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. John Henry LEE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 16, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Swift, Brown & Winick and Gary S. Gill, Des Moines, for appellant.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Fred M. Haskins, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ray A. Fenton, Co. Atty., for appellee.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and REES, UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, and McCORMICK, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This criminal appeal involves defendant John Henry Lee's motion to dismiss, predicated on the ground that the State failed to charge him in time.

On January 29, 1973, acting pursuant to a search warrant, Des Moines police officers searched defendant and found 48 packets of heroin in his pockets. They also found drugs and a plastic spoon in his sock and still more drugs on a shelf in his room.

The next day the officers filed a preliminary...

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