State v. Hall

LeGRAND, Justice.

This appeal from judgment following trial on an information charging murder in violation of § 690.1, The Code 1977, raises only one issue. It challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the finding of first-degree murder. We affirm.

The case was tried to the court rather than to a jury. See rule 16, R.Crim.P. As part of his argument, defendant pleads for a new scope of review for criminal cases tried without a jury. Defendant’s brief urges us to give his appeal a much more “strict scrutiny” than we would if the case had been tried to a jury. We held in State v.…