STATE v. ROTH

No. 85-663.

403 N.W.2d 762 (1987)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. John Frank ROTH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Harrington, Appellate Defender, and Raymond E. Rogers, Asst. Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Richard J. Bennett and Ann DiDonato, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Lee W. Beine, Co. Atty., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, CARTER, and WOLLE, JJ.


REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

A jury found defendant John Frank Roth guilty of first-degree murder, see Iowa Code sections 707.1 and 707.2 (1983), and district court entered the appropriate judgment. Defendant appealed, asserting the court erred in not allowing him to cross-examine his wife and his son, both State witnesses, concerning her twenty-year-old murder conviction. We transferred the case to the court of appeals, which reversed the conviction and remanded...

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