State v. Turner

SCHLEGEL, Judge.

In these consolidated cases, defendant-petitioner appeals his conviction of first-degree robbery in violation of Iowa Code sections 711.1 and 711.2 (1979) and the subsequent denial of his application for post-conviction relief. On direct appeal defendant-petitioner asserts that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support a jury verdict that defendant aided and abetted the robbery; and (2) trial court erred by refusing to take judicial notice of the minutes of testimony of a missing State’s witness who allegedly would have presented exculpatory testimony and further erred by…