STATE v. KELLEY

No. 54470.

195 N.W.2d 702 (1972)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Lacy Laverne KELLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Platt, and Paul H. Kinion, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Robert Jacobson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and William G. Faches, County Atty., for appellee.


BECKER, Justice.

Defendant appeals from conviction for first degree murder following plea of guilty to open count of murder. His sole assignment of error is ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

In the early morning of January 7, 1970, the body of Thomas Noethe, an attendant, was discovered in the Trax Oil Station in Cedar Rapids. Cause of death was a contact shotgun would in the head. An empty casing of a Hawthorne Reliance 16 gauge shotgun shell...

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