STATE v. RINEHART

No. 62729.

283 N.W.2d 319 (1979)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Michael Tim RINEHART, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 19, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Levis, of Scalise, Scism, Gentry, Brick & Brick, Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Faison T. Sessoms, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Monte L. Fisher, Webster County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, ALLBEE, and LARSON, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

Defendant appeals from sentence of life imprisonment following conviction of kidnapping in the first degree in violation of section 710.2, The Code. He asserts: (1) the trial court should have directed a verdict at the close of the State's case in chief; (2) he was denied due process by instructions that the jury could infer from commission of the proscribed acts both the defendant's specific intent to commit the crime and his knowledge that he had...

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