STATE v. MUETZE

No. 14258.

368 N.W.2d 575 (1985)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Kenneth Paul MUETZE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided May 22, 1985.

Rehearing Denied June 24, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Dale, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee; Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

Allen J. Eide of Gribbin, Burns & Eide, Watertown, for defendant and appellant.


MORGAN, Justice.

A grand jury investigated the death of Darwin Florey (Florey) and indicted Kenneth Paul Muetze (Muetze) for first-degree murder. Muetze was tried and convicted by a jury. He appeals that conviction. We affirm.

Florey's death was allegedly the culmination of a series of events that began on January 1, 1983, when Todd Florey (Todd), the victim's son, and a friend, Mike Friske (Friske), met Muetze in a Watertown, South Dakota, bar. Todd, Friske...

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