State of Iowa
v.
Dalton Wayne Cook
Appellee
State of Iowa
Appellant
Dalton Wayne Cook
Attorney for the Appellee
Thomas E. Bakke, Assistant Attorney General
Attorney for the Appellant
Denise M. Gonyea
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Wapello County, Joel D. Yates, Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered by Bower, C.J., Ahlers, J., and Doyle, S.J. Opinion by Doyle, S.J. (5 pages)
Dalton Cook appeals his conviction and sentence on a charge of willful injury causing serious injury. OPINION HOLDS: I. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to upholding the verdict, a reasonable fact finder could conclude Cook aided and abetted in the shooting that establishes Cook’s willful-injury conviction. II. We reject Cook’s claim that the district court imposed an illegal sentence by failing to merge his willful-injury and robbery convictions for the same reasons we rejected an identical claim raised on direct appeal by his codefendant.
