Dеfendant was charged by substituted information with the crime of operating a motor vehicle while intоxicated, being a third offender under section 5022.02, Cоde, 1939, the offense being alleged to have occurred on or about July 8, 1944, and the defendant having been convicted in the district court of Linn County, Iоwa, on January 9, 1939, and again on April 21, 1942, each conviction being of the offense of opеrating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Defendant appеals. The case comes to us on the clerk’s transcript, together with a copy of the court’s instructions and a transcript of the evidence. In submitting the case to the jury the court submitted but two forms of verdict. Form I permitted the jury to find the defendаnt guilty as charged in the substituted information. Form II would have permitted the jury to find the defendant not guilty. The jury’s verdiсt was entered on Form I. The only question for our сonsideration under this record is whether
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or not thе submitting of but two forms of verdict was prejudicial error under the rule announced- by this court in State v. Lowе,
Defendant was represented by able counsel at the trial and conceded and admitted of rеcord that he was convicted in the district court of Linn county on January 9, 1939, of the offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, on a plea of guilty, and further conceded that he was convicted in the district court of Linn county on April 21, 1942, of the crime of operаting a motor vehicle while intoxicated, for a second offense and as a second оffender upon a plea of guilty, and which cоncession was to be considered with the same force and effect as though the comрlete record of each conviction were offered in evidence as a pаrt of the proof herein. Defendant further cоnceded that he is and was the same identicаl person convicted in said criminal causes shown and made a part of the record.
In the case of State v. Dunne,
“Wе have held in several criminal cases that it is not error for the court in its instructions to assume as truе an evidential fact which both parties admit and as to which there is no dispute. State v. Chumley,229 Iowa 579 , 586,294 N. W. 764 , and cases cited; State v. Evans,229 Iowa 932 , 936,295 N. W. 433 , 435; State v. Billberg,229 Iowa 1208 , 1215,296 N. W. 396 , 400.”
Pursuant to the foregoing authorities, it is evident that there was no error in the action of the trial court herein. The judgment is — Affirmed. . . .