State v. Lipscomb

Appeal from a judgment of conviction and denial of a motion for a new trial after a guilty verdict on a charge of aggravated assault, Minn. St. 1967, § 609.225, subd. 1. Defendant contends that the evidence is not sufficient to support the verdict; that the trial court erred in permitting impeachment of defendant by the introduction of evidence of prior misdemeanor convictions; and that the court erred in denying a new trial on a showing that the testimony of a state’s witness was coerced and false.

From the record it appears that about 2 a. m. on February 18, 1968, the victim, Charles…