STATE v. DOHRN

No. 64510.

300 N.W.2d 162 (1981)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Rodney DOHRN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Rasey of Kirkwood & Rasey, Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Thomas N. Martin, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Gary G. Kimes, County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by LeGRAND, P. J., and UHLENHOPP, McCORMICK, LARSON and SCHULTZ, JJ.


McCORMICK, Justice.

Defendant Rodney Dohrn appeals from an indeterminate twenty-five-year sentence which he received upon his guilty plea conviction of sexual abuse in the second degree under section 709.3, The Code. The determinative question is whether the trial court had discretion to impose a lesser sentence. We hold the court did not and therefore affirm.

Sexual abuse in the second degree is a class "B" felony. Section 902.9(1) provides that "[a] class...

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