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Iowa Code § 708.9 (2026)

Spring guns and traps

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Any person who in any place sets a spring gun or a trap which is intended to be sprung by a person and which can cause such person serious injury commits an aggravated misdemeanor. [C79, 81, §708.9] Referred to in §80A.4

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1948–1964 · leading case: Streit v. Lainson, 93 N.W.2d 767 (Iowa 1958).
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Streit v. Lainson, 93 N.W.2d 767 (Iowa 1958). · cites it 12× “The record discloses that defendant was convicted and sentenced for violation of section 708.9 of the 1954 Code relating to bank robbery, on the second day of February, 1957, which was within twenty-four hours of his arrest.”
Cummings v. Lainson, 33 N.W.2d 395 (Iowa 1948). · cites it 6× “” The record shows plaintiff pleaded guilty to the crime of entering a bank with intent to rob, in violation of section 708.9, Code,' 1946, and was sentenced to the State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa for life.”
Streit v. Lainson, 88 N.W.2d 638 (Iowa 1958). · cites it 2× “In his answer the warden stated he was holding Streit under a judgment of conviction and mittimus issued by the District Court of Fayette County, Iowa, that the judgment was entered upon a plea of guilty to the crime of entering a bank with intent to rob the bank in violation of…”
In Re Morgan, 80 F. Supp. 810 (N.D. Iowa 1948). · cites it 4× “Patterson, a Justice of the Peace in Franklin County, charging Morgan and Safford with the violation of Section 708.9, Code of Iowa 1946, relating to bank robbery.”
Streit v. Bennett, 129 N.W.2d 753 (Iowa 1964). · cites it 2× “Bennett at the State Penitentiary at Fort Madison is the mittimus issued February 2, 1957, by the Fayette County District Court pursuant to a judgment and sentence on his plea of guilty to the crime of entering a bank with intent to rob, in violation of section 708.9, Code,…”
State v. English, 46 N.W.2d 13 (Iowa 1951). · cites it 2× “‘did rob the * * * bank * * * by holding up the employees thereof * * *.”
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