Case ID: iowa_66/html/0426-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Larrigan. (Two Cases.)
    1. Criminal Law: waiver of jury: conviction illegal. One indicted for a felony cannot waive a trial by jury, and a conviction without a jury is illegal. -State v. Carman, 63 Iowa, 130, followed.
    
      Appeals from Polls District Gov/rt.
    
    Monday, June 8.
    
      D. 0. Finch, for appellant.
    
      A. J. Baker, Attorney-general, for appellee.
   By the court.

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of a felony by the court, a trial by jury having been waived. It has been held that such a conviction is illegal. State v. Carman, 63 Iowa, 130. These cases must therefore be

Eeversed.