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Kenneth Barton, 31, of Cres-lon, was taken lo the state penitentiary at Fort Madison today to begin serving a 25-yenr prison term as an habitual criminal. Deputy Sheriff (luy Sanson left with Barton for the penitentiary this morning. Barton was sentenced byJudge Thomas S. Bown in Union county district court Thursday afternoon after he had pleaded guilty to the habitual criminal charge. The charge was included in an indictment returned by the Union county grand jury which charged Barton with assault with intent to commit manslaughter for a Jan. 1 assault upon his mother, Mrs. Anna Barton. It was not submitted to the jury which found Barton guilty of the assault with intent to commit man. slaughter charge earlier this month.The habitual criminal charge was based upon three convictions for felonies. Barton had been sentenced to prison in 1954 1 on a charge of assault with in-I tent to commit manslaughter and in I960 for malicious injury to a building and fixtures. The conviction this month was the third on which the habitual criminal charge was based. Barton had been released from the penitentiary in 1963 on the ma-j licious injury to a building and ] fixtures charge, which involved j damaging the Union county jailj while he was being held there.
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Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 26, 1965
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