Gavin v. State

HABHAB, Judge.

A trial information was filed on February 26, 1981, in the Scott County District Court, charging the defendant and four others with several crimes including murder in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree, and theft in the second degree. The defendant was convicted after his first jury trial on all of those charges.

On appeal of his conviction, the Supreme Court of Iowa held that the trial court committed reversible error in allowing impeachment of the defendant based upon a prior escape charge. State v. Gavin, 328 N.W.2d 501, 503 (Iowa 1983). The Iowa Supreme Court…