Supreme Court of Iowa· 11/12/1980

State v. Frank

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298 N.W.2d 324
1980 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 979

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recognizing that a court should look upon witnesses’ recantations with suspicion and concluding that a new trial should not be granted unless the trial court is satisfied that the testimony of a material witness was false or mistaken
applying the rule when the defendant argued for a directed verdict because “recanted testimony should not be considered and that without it there was not sufficient evidence to submit the case to the jury”
“[T]he matter rests in the sound discretion of the trial court.”

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Judges: Reynoldson, Legrand, Harris, Larson, Schultz

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