State v. Wellman
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Harvey IVellman was indicted by the grand jury of Hennepin county. The proceedings in the district court for that county at the trial before Fish, J., .are stated id the opinion. The court certified the question to the supreme court.
1Per curiam
On the trial of this cause and immediately after a jury had been impaneled to try the issues presented by the indictment and defendant’s plea of *489not guilty, and, after the county attorney had made his opening statement to the jury, counsel fo,r defendant interposed a motion to quash the indictment and for the discharge of defendant, on the ground that on the facts stated by the county attorney there could be no conviction, for such facts if established would not constitute a violation of the statute on which the indictment is founded. Thereupon the court discharged the jury and certified the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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