State v. Jackson

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant was charged by a grand jury in Hennepin County with two counts of second-degree murder, one alleging that he intentionally killed the victim, the other alleging that the killing occurred in the course of defendant’s committing felonious assault. Minn.Stat. § 609.19 (1982). The trial court granted a defense motion for judgment of acquittal of the first charge at the conclusion of all the evidence. The jury found defendant guilty of the other charge. The trial court sentenced defendant to an executed prison term of 284 months in prison, which is within the…