STATE v. OWENS

No. C6-83-1202.

373 N.W.2d 313 (1985)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Curtis OWENS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Minnesota State Public Defender, Mark F. Anderson, Asst. State Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Minnesota Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief App. Section, Richard Osborne, Asst. County Atty., J. Michael Richardson, Beverly J. Wolfe, Paul R. Jennings, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


COYNE, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of first-degree premeditated murder and was sentenced by the trial court to life imprisonment. Minn.Stat. § 609.185(1) (1982). On this appeal from judgment of conviction and from an order denying postconviction relief, defendant seeks (1) an outright reversal of his conviction because the evidence of his guilt was legally insufficient or (2) a new trial because (a) the trial court improperly...

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