State v. Taylor

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

Defendant was charged by trial information with first-degree murder, in violation of section 707.2, The Code 1979, following the shooting death of his wife, Lacie Mae. The jury returned a guilty verdict, defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals, and we affirm.

The trial generated ample evidence from which the jury could have found the following facts. At about 11:30 p.m. on June 1, 1979, defendant returned to his Waterloo home after work to find Lacie and his three children absent. He went to a service…