State v. Southern

YETKA, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of negligent vehicular homicide, Minn.Stat. § 609.21 (1980), and was sentenced by the trial court to a maximum 5-year prison term. On this appeal from judgment of conviction, defendant contends that her conviction should be reversed outright because the evidence that she was grossly negligent or that her gross negligence caused the victim’s death was legally insufficient. Alternatively, she contends that she is entitled to a new trial because the trial court erred in admitting evidence concerning statements defendant made to…