diff --git a/core/rawdb/accessors_indexes.go b/core/rawdb/accessors_indexes.go
index 10eb454015..8c8c3ec9bb 100644
--- a/core/rawdb/accessors_indexes.go
+++ b/core/rawdb/accessors_indexes.go
@@ -147,9 +147,6 @@ func findTxInBlockBody(blockbody rlp.RawValue, target common.Hash) (*types.Trans
 	}
 	txIndex := uint64(0)
 	for iter.Next() {
-		if iter.Err() != nil {
-			return nil, 0, iter.Err()
-		}
 		// The preimage for the hash calculation of legacy transactions
 		// is just their RLP encoding. For typed (EIP-2718) transactions,
 		// which are encoded as byte arrays, the preimage is the content of
@@ -171,6 +168,9 @@ func findTxInBlockBody(blockbody rlp.RawValue, target common.Hash) (*types.Trans
 		}
 		txIndex++
 	}
+	if iter.Err() != nil {
+		return nil, 0, iter.Err()
+	}
 	return nil, 0, errors.New("transaction not found")
 }