STATE v. SAILOR

No. 48679.

289 N.W.2d 500 (1980)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Sheldon Joseph SAILOR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Phebe S. Haugen, Special Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Alan L. Mitchell, County Atty., and Michael W. McNabb, Asst. County Atty., Duluth, for respondent.

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


PETERSON, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of aggravated assault, Minn.Stat. § 609.225, subd. 2 (1976) (assault with a dangerous weapon), and was sentenced by the trial court to a term of 1 to 10 years in prison. On this appeal from judgment of conviction, defendant contends that (1) the evidence that he committed the assault was legally insufficient and that (2) he was prejudiced by the prosecutor's cross-examination of him about...

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