Supreme Court of Iowa· 3/23/1990

State v. Taylor

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452 N.W.2d 605
1990 WL 32222

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concluding that where evidence did not support an element of the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter of which defendant was convicted but evidence did support the greater charge of second-degree murder, no reversible error occurred
holding an eight-month-old child cannot “provoke” an adult under the voluntary manslaughter statute
concluding malice aforethought is not an element of voluntary manslaughter either
concluding malice aforethought is not an element of voluntary manslaughter either
noting that killing another without malice aforethought is voluntary manslaughter
“the prevailing view is that a child as young as this victim [8 month’s] cannot, as-a matter of law, provoke a defendant in such a way as to reduce the crime to voluntary manslaughter”

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Judges: Larson, Andreasen, McGiverin, Harris

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