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STATE v. O'CONNELL

No. 61172.

275 N.W.2d 197 (1979)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Thomas Joseph O'CONNELL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kjas T. Long, Waterloo, for appellant.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Faison T. Sessoms, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., David H. Correll, Black Hawk County Atty., and R. James Sheerer, Harry W. Zanville and Jay A. Nardini, Asst. Black Hawk County Attys., for appellee.

Considered en banc.

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

Defendant Thomas Joseph O'Connell appeals from judgments imposing concurrent life sentences for the second-degree murder of his wife Carole and first-degree murder of his daughter Colleen. We affirm.

The bodies of Carole and Colleen were discovered in their burning mobile home on the morning of March 29, 1977. Defendant had left for work about two hours before the fire was discovered. The jury could have found the burn time of the...

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