STATE v. TALBBET

No. 98-0216.

590 N.W.2d 732 (1999)

STATE of Iowa, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Linda Kathleen TALBBET a/k/a Linda Kathleen Travis, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

January 27, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and David Arthur Adams, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Robert P. Ewald, Assistant Attorney General, Brent Symens, County Attorney, and Thomas H. Miller, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Heard by SACKETT, C.J., and HUITINK, STREIT, VOGEL, and MAHAN, JJ.


MAHAN, J.

Defendant Linda Talbbet appeals from her conviction, following a jury trial, of first-degree murder. She contends the district court erred in overruling her motion for judgment of acquittal due to allegedly insufficient evidence she possessed sufficient mental ability to act willfully, deliberately, and with premeditation. We affirm.

Several weeks prior to April 18, 1997, seventeen-year-old Felicia West came to live with Talbbet and her boyfriend...

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