STATE v. WALSH

No. 65864.

318 N.W.2d 184 (1982)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. James Walter WALSH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas F. Staskal, State Appellate Defender's Office, Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen. and Roxanne M. Ryan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, UHLENHOPP, McCORMICK and McGIVERIN, JJ.


LeGRAND, Justice.

This one-issue appeal challenges the introduction at defendant's trial of evidence concerning a prior crime. We affirm the judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment.

The body of Eleanor A. Jennings, a sixty-year-old widow, was discovered in her Carter Lake home on August 18, 1979. She had been strangled and had probably been sexually abused as well. Defendant came under suspicion because several...

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