STATE v. DENT

No. 51315.

308 N.W.2d 487 (1981)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Anthony DENT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 24, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Susan K. Maki, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief, Appellate Section, Michael McGlennen, Asst. County Attys., Thomas A. Weist, Anne E. Peek, Law Clerk and Robert Lynn, Asst. County Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

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


SHERAN, Chief Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of first-degree murder and was sentenced by the trial court to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. On appeal from the judgment of conviction, defendant contends that the evidence of his guilt was insufficient and raises a number of issues relating to the admissibility of certain evidence concerning the adequacy of the instructions. We affirm.

The victim in this case was a Mexican...

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