STATE v. WATTS

No. 43660.

208 N.W.2d 748 (1973)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Claude Marvin WATTS, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 15, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Ronald L. Haskvitz, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, George M. Scott, County Atty., Theodore R. Rix, Vernon E. Bergstrom and Michael H. McGlennen, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard before KNUTSON, C. J., and PETERSON, TODD and MacLAUGHLIN, JJ.


MacLAUGHLIN, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a conviction of kidnapping. Minn.St. 609.25, subd. 1(2, 3). Defendant was tried by a jury and testified on his own behalf. We affirm.

The victim, Philip William Chase, age 56, testified that on Saturday afternoon, July 17, 1971, he was waiting for a bus at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Lake Street in Minneapolis. Chase was carrying a bag of groceries at the time. He testified at trial that he glanced out of the...

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