Hamann v. State

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

Applicant Hamann filed a Code chapter 663A application for postconviction relief after we affirmed his first-degree murder conviction in State v. Hamann, 285 N.W.2d 180 (Iowa 1979). Following denial of his application Hamann appeals and we affirm.

At the murder trial it was conceded that Hamann went to the office of Richard Slat-tery, a Davenport park board employee, and shot him six times with an automatic pistol. This was the culmination of a long-standing controversy between Slattery and Ham-ann’s father, another park board employee. The jury, unpersuaded by…