State v. Frank

SCHULTZ, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of first-degree murder in violation of section 707.2, The Code 1977. Defendant contends that (1) media publicity during the course of the trial denied her a fair trial, and (2) the trial court committed prejudicial error by allowing the jury to consider incriminating testimony by a state’s witness which was subsequently recanted during the trial. We affirm the trial court.

On August 30,1978, eighty-eight year old George E. O’Harrow was beaten to death at his residence in Mason City, where he lived alone. On November 1 defendant, Sandra Kay…