STATE v. VEAL

No. 95-2002.

564 N.W.2d 797 (1997)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Ruthann VEAL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfredo Parrish and Andrew J. Dunn of Parrish, Kruidenier, Moss, Dunn & Montgomery, Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Ferguson, County Attorney, and D. Raymond Walton, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, CARTER, SNELL, and TERNUS, JJ.


McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

The overall issue in this appeal is whether any of a number of alleged errors by the trial court requires reversal of defendant's conviction for first-degree murder in violation of Iowa Code section 707.2 (1993). Finding no reversible error by the trial court, we affirm.

I. Background proceedings. Defendant Ruthann Veal was arrested in June 1993 in connection with the death of Catherine Haynes in Waterloo, Iowa. Veal, who was...

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