STATE v. FRANK

No. 63321.

298 N.W.2d 324 (1980)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Sandra Kay FRANK, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Pappas, Mason City, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., and John P. Messina, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, HARRIS, LARSON and SCHULTZ, JJ.


SCHULTZ, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of first-degree murder in violation of section 707.2, The Code 1977. Defendant contends that (1) media publicity during the course of the trial denied her a fair trial, and (2) the trial court committed prejudicial error by allowing the jury to consider incriminating testimony by a state's witness which was subsequently recanted during the trial. We affirm the trial court.

On August 30, 1978, eighty-eight...

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