State v. Cole

LARSON, Justice.

This defendant appeals her conviction, in a jury-waived trial, of first-degree murder in violation of section 690.2, The Code 1977. She challenges the trial court’s rulings in regard to (1) psychiatric evidence secured by depositions and in-trial testimony, (2) admission of objects sized from the defendant’s automobile and (3) ordering a deposition of defendant’s husband. We affirm the trial court.

It is undisputed that on September 15, 1977, the defendant shot and killed Dr. Alan Tyler, her ex-husband, in his office at Wil-den Clinic. Immediately after the shooting, she…