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STATE v. COUNTRYMAN

No. 96-1220.

572 N.W.2d 553 (1997)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Darla COUNTRYMAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 24, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia M. Hulting of Roehrick, Hulting, Blumberg, Kirlin & Krull, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Mary Tabor, Assistant Attorney General, John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Nan Horvat, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and NEUMAN, SNELL, ANDREASEN, and TERNUS, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

This first-degree murder prosecution arose from the particularly savage killings of two elderly Des Moines sisters during a crudely inept robbery. The defendant and her husband were both charged with the killings, and she appeals following her conviction of first-degree murder in violation of Iowa Code section 707.2 (1995). Because we find no merit in any of the defendant's four assignments of error, we affirm.

The victims, eighty-three-year...

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