State v. Hall

214 N.W.2d 205 (1974)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee,

v.

Allen Lee HALL, Appellant.

No. 55845.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 16, 1974.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1974.

Korf, Diehl, Clayton & Cleverley, Newton, for appellant.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Fred M. Haskins, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Dennis F. Chalupa, Jasper County Atty., for appellee.

Considered En Banc.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The principal legal question in this appeal from a conviction of first-degree murder relates to the effect upon criminal responsibility of a mental condition resulting from voluntary ingestion of a drug. The principal factual…