GARRETT, Justice.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree. She admitted that on January 10, 1959 she shot her common-law husband, Edward Francis McNamara at their home near Central City, Iowa with a .22 caliber rifle thus causing his instantaneous death. She alleged she acted in justifiable self defense.
I. The defendant claims that when she fired the fatal shot she was actuated by fear her husband was about to do her great...
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