State v. Clark

REYNOLDSON, Justice.

Defendant Edward N. Clark was charged by county attorney’s information, tried and convicted of first degree murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals from this judgment. We affirm.

Defendant contends the trial court erred in (1) giving instruction 15 relating to mental condition and in failing to give a requested intoxication instruction and (2) refusing to admit into evidence certain proffered exhibits.

The evidence is uncontroverted that on April 11, 1969, defendant, then an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, assaulted, stabbed and…