STATE v. McNAIR

Cr. No. 920015.

491 N.W.2d 397 (1992)

STATE of North Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Richard McNAIR, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

October 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce B. Haskell (argued), Asst. State's Atty., Bismarck, for plaintiff and appellee.

Wayne D. Goter (argued), Bismarck, for defendant and appellant.


ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

Richard McNair appeals from a criminal judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of attempted escape, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. We affirm.

McNair is serving a life sentence at the State Penitentiary in Bismarck. On Sunday, April 21, 1991, Steven Scott, who was chief of security at the penitentiary, learned from an inmate about an escape plot involving McNair and another inmate. Scott went...

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