State v. Roberts

Nelson, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment of conviction of third-degree murder.

It appears that on June 22, 1966, defendant, Charles Roberts, also known as Butch Fontaine, then 19 years of age, shot and killed one Roger Milan with a .22-caliber derringer pistol in the vicinity of Marshall Avenue and Mackubin Street in St. Paul. Defendant was born in Lansing, Michigan, and after coming to St. Paul in 1960 completed the tenth grade at Central High School. He is referred to as “a somewhat hostile lad from a broken home” who had been confined at the Youth Conservation Commission for some time at an…