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STATE v. CRANEY

No. 69614.

347 N.W.2d 668 (1984)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Michael Cecil CRANEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Whalen of Dunbar, Dunbar & Whalen, Waterloo, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Roxann M. Ryan, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Philip E. Havens, County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, LARSON, and CARTER, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves legal issues which arose in a first-degree murder prosecution.

The jury could find the facts as follows. At the time of the incident in question defendant Michael Cecil Craney and his wife Kimberly had a fifteen-day-old child, Matthew. Previously defendant had undergone periods of depression and delusions and had abused alcohol and drugs. The day before the incident he worked...

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