State v. Fitterer, 48474

Decision Date09 March 1954
Docket NumberNo. 48474,48474
Citation62 N.W.2d 914
PartiesSTATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Donald Charles FITTERER, Appellant.
CourtIowa Supreme Court

Appeal from Lee District Court; J. R. Leary, Judge.

Joseph L. Phelan, Fort Madison, for appellant.

Leo A. Hoegh, Atty. Gen. of Iowa, R. R. R. Dvorak, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert N. Johnson, County Attorney, Fort Madison, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

The appeal is presented on a clerk's transcript of the record. We have carefully examined it and find no reversible error in the record. The judgment of the court, in accord with the verdict of the jury, finding and adjudging defendant, Donald Charles Fitterer, guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree in violation of Section 690.2 of the Iowa Code of 1950, I.C.A., and sentencing and committing him to the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa, for the term of his natural life at hard labor and ordering him to pay the costs of his prosecution, is therefore affirmed.

Affirmed.

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  • State v. Russell, 48417
    • United States
    • Iowa Supreme Court
    • September 21, 1954
    ...presented on a transcript of the record in the district court, made by the clerk of the court, the judgment was affirmed. State v. Fitterer, Iowa, 62 N.W.2d 914. Defendant was born April 10, 1928. He never married. His mother died January 29, 1951. His father was living but he did not know ......

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