STATE v. QUITT

No. 54819.

204 N.W.2d 913 (1973)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Terry Edward QUITT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Sylvester, Sioux City, for appellant.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Raymond W. Sullins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Onawa, James F. Gaukel, Mapleton and Steven E. Allen, County Atty., Onawa, for appellee.

Heard by MOORE, C. J., and LeGRAND, REES, UHLENHOPP and HARRIS, JJ.


REES, Justice.

Defendant, charged by county attorney's information with the crime of murder, was tried to a jury, convicted of murder in the second degree, sentenced, and now appeals.

Defendant relies upon one error only to justify reversal; he contends the giving of a verdict-urging instruction after the court had been informed by the foreman of the jury that the jury was deadlocked, constitutes coercion when the same resulted, as claimed by defendant, in...

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