State v. Happel

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of charges of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and of attempted first-degree murder, and was sentenced by the trial court to a limited maximum term of 10 years in prison on the conspiracy conviction. Defendant appeals from judgment of conviction and we affirm.

In 1969 defendant, with the assistance of her daughter from an earlier marriage who was living in Des Moines, hired a Des Moines cab driver named Bill Dawson to come to Minnesota and to kill her paramour, Jack Farris, who was planning on leaving her. The killing was to occur on…