State v. Steeves

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict returned against defendant, Ronald LeRoy Steeves, in Hennepin County District Court May 24, 1963. The jury found Steeves, a 19-year-old Minneapolis newspaper dispatcher, guilty of first-degree murder in the February 27, 1963, slaying of 15-year-old Mary Bell.

It appears from the record that defendant dropped out of Minneapolis South High during his ninth grade and, at the time of his arrest, was on parole from the St. Cloud Reformatory. The record shows that defendant first met Pat (Patricia) Bell, Mary’s…