STATE v. McCULLUM

No. 48075.

289 N.W.2d 89 (1979)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. LeRoy McCULLUM, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

September 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Linda Matthews Britton, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Gary W. Flakne, County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief Asst. County Atty., App. Div., and David W. Larson, Asst. County Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard before KELLY, SCOTT, and STONE, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


KELLY, Justice.

Defendant was tried in Hennepin County District Court for the crime of murder in the first degree. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On appeal, defendant raises two issues:

(1) Whether the circumstantial evidence presented by the state was sufficient to establish the requisite premeditation to sustain a conviction of first degree murder; and

(2) Whether testimony of a police officer that the accused...

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