STATE v. COFFEE

No. 53686.

182 N.W.2d 390 (1970)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Hoover Lincoln COFFEE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 15, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Nielsen and William F. Olinger, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., and Roxanne Barton Conlin, Asst. Atty. Gen., William G. Faches, County Atty., for appellee.


LeGRAND, Justice.

Defendant was charged by county attorney's information with fatally shooting Michael Earl Lawson in violation of section 690.1, The Code, 1966. Upon trial the jury found him guilty of second degree murder. He appeals from judgment on that verdict.

The appeal raised four issues: (1) error in the admission of two guns owned by defendant but totally unrelated to the crime; (2) error in the admission of certain statements of defendant's common...

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