State v. Gully

HARRIS, Justice.

The question in this appeal from a first-degree murder conviction is whether evidence should have been suppressed. Defendant insisted before and throughout the trial, and urges as his sole assignment on appeal, that certain evidence and inculpato-ry statements were fruits of a warrantless arrest in violation of the fourth and fourteenth amendments of the United States constitution. The trial court rejected the contention and we affirm.

On the night of March 18, 1982, a young Fort Dodge woman was found murdered near a mobile trailer home where she had been babysitting. Her body…