State v. Garcia

VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Jesse Garcia appealed from a judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of the crime of murder, a Class AA felony, in violation of Section 12.1-16-01(1), N.D.C.C. We affirm.

This case arose from the death of Thomas Leek. Thomas Leek died at approximately 3:15 a.m. on July 30, 1983, after suffering 19 cut-and-stab wounds, primarily to the upper portions of his body, and after being hit in the head and neck area. Leek’s body was found in the rear of a commercial building in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

A trial was held beginning on December 1, 1987.…