STATE v. COBURN

No. 63551.

315 N.W.2d 742 (1982)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. John Martin COBURN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. F. M. Samore of Samore & Samore, Sioux City, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Roxann Ryan, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Patrick C. McCormick, Woodbury County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by LeGRAND, P. J., and McCORMICK, ALLBEE, McGIVERIN, and LARSON, JJ.


LeGRAND, Justice.

Defendant was tried to a jury on the charge of having committed sexual abuse in the first degree upon the person of a ten-year-old girl in violation of section 709.2, Code Supp.1977. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. He appeals, and we affirm the trial court.

Defendant, forty-two years old at the time of the crime, was living with the victim's mother. Both of them had serious drinking problems. On the...

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