State v. Berry

— The defendant presents three questions on appeal: 1. Whether certain statements of defendant’s wife were admissible as part of the res gestae. 2. Whether-uncontradieted evidence of defendant’s insanity required a directed verdict of acquittal. 3. Whether certain arguments of prosecuting attorney were so prejudicial and unsupported by evidence as to warrant a new trial. .

The alleged murder of Ernest Knott was committed shortly after midnight of June 27, 1947, in Iowa Falls, Iowa. Earlier in the evening defendant and decedent and their wives and another couple had met in the kitchen of…