COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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Tit. XXXIII, Ch. 63. HABITUAL CRIMINALS. §§ 9044-9048.
3 onment for life to escape, he shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary
4 not more than ten years.
[C, '51, § 2661; R., '60, § 4288; C, '73, § 3953; C, '97,
§ 4891 ; 39 G. A., ch. 231, § 15.]
CHAPTER 63.
HABITUAL CRIMINALS.
SECTION 9044. Third conviction of felony.
1 Whenever any person has been twice convicted of either of the
2 crimes of burglary, robbery, forgery, counterfeiting, larceny where
3 the value of the property stolen exceeded twenty dollars, or of breaking
4 and entering with intent to commit a public offense any dwelling
5 house, office, shop, store, warehouse, railroad car, boat, vessel, or build-
6 ing, in which goods, merchandise, or valuable things, were kept for
7 use, sale or deposit, or has been convicted of two or more of said
8 crimes, and shall thereafter be convicted of any one of such crimes,
9 committed after such conviction, he shall be imprisoned in the peni-
10 tentiary for any term not more than forty years, provided such former
11 judgments shall be referred to'in the indictment, stating the court,
12 date and place of rendition.
[S., '13, § 4871-a; 39 G. A., ch. 231, § 16.]
SEC. 9048. Habitual criminal defined.
1 Whoever has been twice convicted of crime, sentenced and com-
2 mitted to prison, in this or any other state, or by the United States, or
3 once in this state and once at least in any other state, or by the United
4 States, for terms of not less than three years each shall, upon con-
5 viction of a felony committed in this state after the taking effect of
6 this section, be deemed to be an habitual criminal, and shall be pun-
7 ished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not more than
8 twenty-five years, provided that no greater punishment is otherwise
9 provided by statute, in which case the law creating the greater pun-
10 ishment shall govern.
[S., '13, § 5091-a; 39 G. A.,ch. 231, § 17.]