State v. Miller

NEUMAN, Justice.

Monzelle Miller operated a successful cottage industry from her cell at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women at Mitchell-ville. Through the medium of love letters she managed to swindle several male correspondents out of substantial sums of money. The question on appeal is whether her conviction for theft by deception can be upheld against a challenge to one element of the court’s marshaling instruction — that her guilt could rest, in part, on proof that she misrepresented her “romantic intentions” to the victims. Finding no error in the court’s instruction, we affirm.

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