STATE v. SAUNDERS

No. 42522.

196 N.W.2d 286 (1972)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. David Steven SAUNDERS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 17, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, G. Thomas MacIntosh II, and Edgar H. Rex, Jr., Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, George M. Scott, County Atty., Henry McCarr, Jr. and David Roston, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard before KNUTSON, C. J., and OTIS, PETERSON, TODD, and MASON, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Defendant appeals from a conviction for robbery. The issue is whether discrepancies in the testimony of witnesses who identified defendant require a finding as a matter of law that the state has failed to prove defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We affirm the conviction.

On September 16, 1969, at about 4 p. m., two men held up a pharmacist and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Donovan Hopperstad, at Grais Drugstore, 3400 Lyndale...

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