Legal Opinion
State v. Bester
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 6, 1969No. 53189PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BECKER, Justice.
Defendant Eugene Bester was indicted, tried by a jury of twelve and found guilty of murder in the first degree. His appeal assigns as error the giving of two instructions dealing with evidence of flight and the weight to be given defendant’s testimony. We reverse and remand for new trial.
The fatal shooting was an outgrowth of the relationship of two men and a woman. Defendant was seeing and often in the company of Mrs. Rose Washington in February 1968. Mrs. Washington and her husband, Bobby Washington, were separated. Part of the marital trouble was the relationship between…
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