State v. Carlson

TODD, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of a charge of selling marijuana, Minn.St. 152.09, subd. 1(1), and was sentenced by the trial court to a maximum term of 5 years in prison, the sentence to run consecutively to a sentence of defendant for a prior offense. The issue on this appeal from judgment of conviction is whether the trial court erred in denying a motion for mistrial after a prosecution witness testified on cross-examination about suspected prior drug involvement of defendant. We affirm.

The sale in this case occurred on October 21, 1975. That afternoon,…