STATE v. SOUTHERN

No. 51356.

304 N.W.2d 329 (1981)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Betty Jean SOUTHERN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, and Kathy King, Asst. State Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Thomas W. Foley, County Atty., and Steven C. DeCoster, Asst. County Atty., St. Paul, for respondent.

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


YETKA, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of negligent vehicular homicide, Minn.Stat. § 609.21 (1980), and was sentenced by the trial court to a maximum 5-year prison term. On this appeal from judgment of conviction, defendant contends that her conviction should be reversed outright because the evidence that she was grossly negligent or that her gross negligence caused the victim's death was legally insufficient. Alternatively, she contends...

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