STATE v. STEINKE

No. 50044.

292 N.W.2d 243 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Arthur Werner STEINKE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Nicklaus, County Public Defender, Chaska, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Thomas Fabel, Deputy Atty. Gen., Elizabeth Cutter, Law Clerk, St. Paul, Scott Ballou, County Atty., Chaska, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


SHERAN, Chief Justice.

Defendant was tried in district court on an indictment charging him with first-degree murder and was found guilty by the jury of the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.19 (1978) (intentional nonpremeditated murder). The trial court sentenced him to a limited, maximum prison term of 15 years (instead of the 40 permitted by statute). Defendant, on this appeal from judgment of conviction, contends that the evidence...

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