Opinion ID: 1891349
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Heading: Submission to the jury of instruction 11 relating to the alternative theories of the commission of the murder.

Text: Instruction 11 stated the propositions the State was required to prove in order for defendant to be found guilty. It set out the alternative propositions relating to the manner in which the murder was committedwith malice aforethought and willfully, deliberately and premeditatedly, and with specific intent to kill, or with malice aforethought in the perpetration of, or in an attempt to perpetrate, a robbery. Defendant objected to this instruction with respect to pleading in the alternative in that it unduly emphasizes Count I which was pleaded in the alternative, it gives too much consideration to it   . Defendant was attempting to preserve his objection to the amended county attorney's information. Our holding in division II resolves this issue. Given the evidence in the case and the various ways first-degree murder may be committed, trial court was required to instruct on the alternative propositions. See § 690.2, The Code; State v. Jochims, 241 N.W.2d 25, 27 (Iowa 1976); State v. Hall, supra, 235 N.W.2d at 725; State v. Lamar, 210 N.W.2d 600, 605-606 (Iowa 1973).