State v. Webb

LeGRAND, Justice.

This appeal from sentence following defendant’s conviction of forcible rape in violation of § 698.1, The Code, raises but a single issue concerning alleged prosecutorial misconduct. We affirm.

During a trial recess, defense counsel was overheard conversing with Kenneth Fees, a defense witness, concerning what had appeared in a newspaper article about the rape for which defendant was on trial. In that conversation Fees related to counsel that, upon reading the newspaper account, his wife said to him, “Do you suppose this is Leland [the defendant]?”

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