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State v. Mays

Citations

  • 204 N.W.2d 862
  • 1973 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 935

How courts have described this case

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  • reviewing the defendant’s direct appeal of the district court’s giving of an aiding and abetting jury instruction
  • noting submission of an instruction unsupported by the evidence is generally prejudicial
  • error to submit to jury aiding-and-abetting instruction where no proof anyone other than the defendant was involved in the crime
  • “The present case falls under the principle that an instruction submitting an issue unsubstantiated by evidence is generally prejudicial.”

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Judges: Moore, Le-Grand, Rees, Uhlenhopp, Harris

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