STATE v. SWENSON

No. C7-86-686.

396 N.W.2d 855 (1986)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Richard Lee SWENSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied February 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Wayne Swanson, Polk Co. Atty., Crookston, for respondent.

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, Mollie G. Raskind, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Considered and decided by CRIPPEN, P.J., and LANSING and LESLIE, JJ., with oral argument waived.


OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

Richard Swenson appeals his conviction of arson in the second degree. We affirm.

FACTS

On July 13, 1985, the Sekula building, an abandoned apartment building in Crookston, Minnesota, burned. In January 1986 a jury convicted appellant Richard Swenson of arson in the second degree for starting the fire. The primary witnesses at trial were Swenson's roommates at the time of the fire, Timothy Goosen and David Garrison...

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