STATE v. SMITH

No. C7-84-795.

367 N.W.2d 497 (1985)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Charles D. SMITH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 3, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Michael F. Cromett, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas J. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Michael Richardson, Beverly J. Wolfe, Paul R. Jennings, Anne E. Peek, 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, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(1) (1982), and first-degree intentional murder in the commission of aggravated robbery, section 609.185(3), and he was sentenced by the trial court to a mandatory term of life in prison. On appeal, he claims (1) that the state failed to prove that he killed the victim or that he did so either...

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