Opinion ID: 1228432
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Heading: Instruction on credibility of witnesses.

Text: Defendants now complain instruction 6 (permitting the jury to consider the bias and prejudice of witnesses) erroneously singled out defendants because, among the defense witnesses, they had the strongest motive to lie. This instruction, they contend, thus violated the rule laid down in State v. Bester, 167 N.W.2d 705 (Iowa 1969). We do not reach the questionable merits of this complaint because defendants did not object or except to the giving of instruction 6, nor was the subject raised in their motion for new trial. Defendants have waived this alleged error. State v. Willer, 218 N.W.2d 605, 607 (Iowa 1974); State v. Pardock, 215 N.W.2d 344, 346-347 (Iowa 1974).