State v. Carstens

REES, Justice.

Defendant Mary Lou Carstens was informed against by county attorney’s true information and charged with the crime of murder in violation of section 690.2, Code, 1966. She was tried and convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree and following conviction was sentenced by the Cerro Gordo district court to life imprisonment in the Women’s Reformatory at Rockwell City. She appeals from this judgment and we affirm.

Defendant assigns four errors upon which she relies for reversal, asserting error in the failure of the court to instruct upon the issue of defendant’s insanity under…