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STATE v. GAVLE

No. 35,443.

234 Minn. 186 (1951)

STATE v. VIOLA GAVLE.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 18, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer R. Peterson and John F.D. Meighen, for appellant.

J.A.A. Burnquist, Attorney General, Lowell J. Grady, Assistant Attorney General, and Rudolph Hanson, County Attorney, for the State.

LORING, CHIEF JUSTICE.

May 9, 1950, the grand jury of Freeborn county, Minnesota, returned an indictment against Mrs. Viola Gavle, charging her with murder in the first degree. She was tried, convicted, and on June 24, 1950, sentenced to life imprisonment in the women's reformatory. She moved to have the verdict set aside and for a new trial. This motion was denied, and she has appealed from the denial of her motion and...

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