State v. Cuevas

LARSON, Justice.

This defendant appeals from her conviction and sentence for the crime of murder in the first degree under sections 690.1 and 690.2, The Code 1977. She contends that the trial court, erred in refusing to direct a verdict in her favor on the grounds that the State had failed to corroborate the testimony of an accomplice and that the State, which had charged her as an aider and abettor in the crime, had failed to prove she had “actively participated” in the events leading to the death of the victim. She also claims it erred in overruling her motion for new trial based upon…